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The Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa. The granite structure is located on a hilltop, and was raised to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854.
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 ...
A Voortrekker accepts authority placed over him or her. A Voortrekker keeps the language and culture of the Afrikaners in honour. A Voortrekker takes the good from the past and builds the future thereupon. A Voortrekker studies, appreciates and protects our environment. A Voortrekker is a contributing citizen. A Voortrekker is a true leader.
Articles relating to the Voortrekker pioneers of colonial South Africa. Pages in category "Voortrekker" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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 Anderson
To prevent schism and discord, the new Voortrekker leader in Natal, Maritz, diplomatically pronounced that both Uys and Potgieter were to be in command. However, a struggle between the hot-headed Uys and Potgieter ensued. The divided force was lured into an ambush by the Zulus at Italeni, and both Uys and his son Dirkie, were killed. The ...
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
The name of the group is derived from Trekboer then later "boer", which means "farmer" in Dutch and Afrikaans. [ 4 ] In addition, the term Boeren also applied to those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to colonise the Orange Free State , and the Transvaal (together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal .