08. Gedenksteen vir die OOSTHUIZEN gesin

'During the night of 3 August 1964, a sinkhole in the former mining village township of Westdene, Blyvooruitzight, buried the entire Oosthuizen family and their domestic worker, alive. Situated some 5½km south of Carletonville, as one of four village townships at the Blyvooruitzight Gold Mine, Westdene, was consequently abandoned. The subsequent housing shortage was quickly normalised by extending the Southdene village township situated some 400 meters south of the sinkhole, with pre-fabricated asbestos housing. Unknown at the time, asbestos was since proclaimed and banned as a health hazard, but the houses are still occupied today. ' Source: Wikipedia OOSTHUIZEN J.M. -1964 37 jaar OOSTHUIZEN H.C. nee V.D. WATT -1964 34 jaar OOSTHUIZEN Jacoba -1964 12 jaar OOSTHUIZEN Johannes -1964 8 jaar OOSTHUIZEN Marianne -1964 6 jaar
contributed by: eGGSA
viewed 937 times
08. Gedenksteen vir die OOSTHUIZEN gesin