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Boers who took part in the Great Trek identified themselves as voortrekkers, meaning "pioneers" or "pathfinders" (literally "fore-trekkers") in Dutch and Afrikaans. The Great Trek led directly to the founding of several autonomous Boer republics , namely the South African Republic (also known simply as the Transvaal), the Orange Free State and ...
The Voortrekkers is an Afrikaner youth organisation, founded in South Africa in 1931, for Afrikaner boys and girls. It tries to develop resilience, service, leadership and a good character through team meetings, skills development and camping in nature, with the opportunity for whole families to get involved.
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The frieze consists of 27 bas-relief panels depicting the history of the Great Trek, but incorporating references to everyday life, work methods and religious beliefs of the Voortrekkers. The set of panels illustrates key historical scenes starting from the first voortrekkers of 1835, up to the signing of the Sand River Convention in 1852. In ...
Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius and chose a spot on the banks of the Apies rivier (Afrikaans for "Monkeys river") to be the new capital of the South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek; ZAR).
Voortrekkers were Dutch-speaking settlers in South Africa who migrated eastward as part of the Great Trek. Voortrekkers may also refer to: Voortrekker (yacht), a racing yacht; Voortrekkers (youth organisation), a youth organisation; Voortrekker High School (disambiguation) "The Voortrekkers", a short story in The Dark Between the Stars by Poul ...
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Maria Elizabeth Rothmann, penname M.E.R. (28 August 1875 – 7 September 1975) was an Afrikaans writer, and co-founder of the Voortrekkers youth movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her unique contribution to Afrikaans literature was an ethical didactic , cultural historic review of a bygone Afrikaans society.