| Five kilometres from the city centre is an indigenous piece of veld of great historical importance to the people of Johannesburg. |
| The Garden is a delight of immaculate lawns and shady trees for picnics, combined with open veld with indigenous grasses, shrubs and trees. |
| The farm owner said hailstones the size of hen's eggs battered his valuable grazing veld and totally destroyed his crops. |
| Life in the camps was sometimes easier than subsistence on the war-torn veld, but malnutrition, disease, and neglect killed 42,000 camp inmates. |
| Cattle and sheep were grazed largely on the open veld well into the twentieth century. |
| It is a plot of around 20 acres, with veld surrounding the koppie, which is around 80 metres high. |