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The Boers had cut their ties to Europe as they emerged from the Trekboer group. [24] The Boers possessed a distinct Protestant culture, and the majority of Boers and their descendants were members of a Reformed Church. The Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk ('Dutch Reformed Church') was the national Church of the South African Republic (1852–1902).
The Boers under the leadership of Piet Retief obtained a treaty from Zulu King Dingane to settle part of the lands the Zulus administered or held sway over, but Dingane later betrayed the treaty and slaughtered Retief and 70 members of his delegation. Dingane's impis (Zulu warriors) then killed almost 300 Boers who had settled in the Natal region.
Today, this area is a well tended farm and in the north, the level ground over which the Boers charged is now a wattle plantation. This battle site, with its clearly identifiable sangars, deserves to be declared a Heritage Site under auspices of the new National Heritage Commission .
Map of the Route of the Dorslandtrekkers (solid line) Dorsland Trek (Thirstland Trek) is the collective name of a series of explorations undertaken by Boer settlers from South Africa from 1874 to 1881, in search of political independence and better living conditions.
The British and the Boers had been building up troops at the border between their two domains. [8] Since June 1899, after the failure of the Bloemfontein Conference, Joseph Chamberlain and his aides had been gradually sending forces to Natal to reinforce the region, with a large military buildup occurring in September when reinforcements arrived from India.
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