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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 ...
English: Dick Cruikshanks as Piet Retief in the 1916 film, "The Voortrekkers" (or "Winning a Continent" in the USA). It was produced for African Film Productions Ltd., from a scenario drafted by Gustav Preller, by motion picture producer Harold Shaw of the London Film Company.
English: Relief of an ox-wagon, Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, South Africa Français : Bas-relief d'un chariot à boeuf, monument aux Voortrekkers, Pretoria, Afrique du Sud Date
The next wave of immigration consisted of Voortrekkers fleeing British rule in Cape Colony, who pushed out the English settlers at Port Natal. In May 1838 the Boers took control of the port and soon afterwards established the Natalia Republic. The Republic suffered from disorganized government and poor relations with the Zulus.
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 ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
De Voortrekkers is a 1916 silent film recognized as the first epic in South Africa's motion-picture history and also that nation's oldest surviving feature film. [1]
English: One of the flags of the Voortrekkers, used particularly by those who followed w:Hendrik Potgieter. Ref: Stephanus Petrus Engelbrecht (1946) Thomas François Burgers: A Biography , J.H. de H. Bussy, pp. 74, 104, 106