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The Great Trek was used by Afrikaner nationalists as a core symbol of a common Afrikaans history. It was used to promote the idea of an Afrikaans nation and a narrative that promoted the ideals of the National Party. In 1938, celebrations of the centenary of the Battle of Blood River and the Great Trek mobilised behind an Afrikaans nationalist ...
The principal causes of the Great Trek are not quite as listed in the article. In 1835 British rule had been imposed "recently", says the article. Not true. If that was the cause the trek would have been a generation earlier. No the main cause was the abolition of slavery in 1834! Comment invited. Paul Beardsell 12:13, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
This caused further dissatisfaction among the Dutch settlers. [2]: 199 Boer migrants were referred to as the Voortrekkers during the time of the Great Trek, several mass movements which occurred during the 1830s–40s. [4]
This was known as the Great Trek, and the migrating Boers settled inland, eventually forming the Boer Republics. Skirmish during the Xhosa Wars. British Immigration continued in the Cape, even as many of the Boers continued to trek inland, and the ending of the British East India Company's monopoly on trade led to economic growth.
The subsequent favourable reports of the Commission Treks resulted in many farmers leaving their farms and trekking into the interior of Southern Africa, in what later became known as the Great Trek. Uys sold his own farm in December 1836 and left the Uitenhage area with his party of 100 Voortrekkers (as they became known) in April 1837.
The emigration became known as the Great Trek and the emigrants Voortrekkers. Details on the various motives behind the Great Trek are laid out in the Voortrekker leader, Piet Retief's 1837 manifesto. [8] The Voortrekkers first moved east into the territory later known as Natal. In 1839, they founded the Natalia Republic as a new Boer homeland.
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Between 1836 and 1852, many elected to migrate away from British rule in what became known as the Great Trek. [30] Around 15,000 trekking Boers departed the Cape Colony and followed the eastern coast towards Natal. After Britain annexed Natal in 1843, they journeyed farther northwards into South Africa's vast eastern interior.