The Braamfontein Cemetery is the resting place of Enoch Sontonga, a teacher and lay preacher from the Eastern Cape, who died in obscurity 100 years ago, aged just 33. Sontonga left an indelible legacy - his hymn - Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika (God bless Africa), which went on to become Africa's most famous anthem of black struggle against oppression and is today our national anthem. A 1995 memorial to Sontonga is an impressive granite cube. Ask at the gate for directions. You can safely walk around the cemetery.
The Braamfontein cemetery, Johannesburg's first cemetery, was founded in 1888 and already full by 1927. Memorials to Anglo Boer War victims, victims of Mahatma Gandhi's resistance movement, and graves of many early Joburgers who have left their mark on the city can be found there.