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Many Trekboers crossed the Orange River decades before the Voortrekkers did. Voortrekkers often encountered Trekboers in Transorangia during their Great Trek of the 1830s and 1840s. In 1815, a Trekboer/trader named Coenraad (Du) Buys (a surname of French Huguenot origin) was accused of cattle theft and fled from the British.
A map charting the routes of the largest trekking parties during the first wave of the Great Trek (1835-1840) along with key battles and events. The yellow area indicating the initial area of colonisation extends too far south – south of Thaba Nchu and what would become Bloemfontein was an area colonised by Griqua and Trekboers.
Those Trekboers who occupied the eastern Cape were semi-nomadic. A significant number in the eastern Cape frontier later became Grensboere ('border farmers') who were the direct ancestors of the Voortrekkers. The Boers addressed several correspondence to the British Colonial Government before leaving the Cape Colony as reasons for their departure.
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The Trekboers preceded the Great Trek by many years and were the semi-nomadic farmers who followed good pastures through the Karoo and Northern Cape - frequently moving over the Orange River. The Trekboer life style continued well into the 20th century.
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