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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 11:21, 1 August 2013: 1,870 × 2,116 (2.49 MB): JMK {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Dick Cruikshanks as Piet Retief in the 1916 film, The Voortrekkers, or Winning a Continent (in the USA), produced for African Film Productions Ltd., from a scenario drafted by Gustav Preller, by motion picture prod...
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 Piet Retief Delegation massacre was the 1838 killing of 100 Voortrekkers by the Zulu king Dingane in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Voortrekkers, led by Piet Retief, migrated into Natal in 1837 and negotiated a land treaty in February 1838 with Dingane. Upon realizing the ramifications of the imposed contract, Dingane betrayed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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