This marks the site where South Africa's first champion tree stood, declared in 2004. The tree was over 100 years old, with a girth of 4m, but a severe pruning in 2005 killed the tree. The giant oak was a meeting place for the community in old Sophiatown, before forced removals by the apartheid government between 1955-61. An acorn from the tree was planted at the Christ the King Church and the new tree continues to grow.