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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 Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa. ... transform their meaning as per the Philosophers Stone of the alchemists.
The founders – variously named Trekboers, Boers, and Voortrekkers – settled mainly in the middle, northern, north-eastern and eastern parts of present-day South Africa. Two of the Boer republics achieved international recognition and complete independence: the South African Republic ( Dutch : Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek , ZAR; or Transvaal ...
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.
The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner label was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of politically unifying the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.
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.
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Pages in category "Voortrekker" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Great Trek; O.