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...

heading north on the Great Trek. South Africa portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Great Trek. Trekboers Dorsland Trek History of South Africa Bradley...

The Dorsland tree, also known as the Dorsland Baobab and the Dorsland Grootboom (Afrikaans: Large Thirstland Tree), is a baobab tree in Namibia which...

significant number even penetrated as far north as Angola during the Dorsland Trek. The South-West became a German colony during the late 19th century...

of Botswana in the 19th century, starting with the Boer people. The Dorsland Trek in the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw thousands of Boer families...

embark on another trek, north-west across the Kalahari Desert towards Angola, rather than live under Burgers. This became the Dorsland Trek of 1874. The emigrants...

Afrikaans and means "six rawhide thongs", given by settlers on the Dorsland Trek who had to join six such thongs in order for a bucket to reach the water...

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Swellendam – died 29 March 1927 in Humpata) was the leader of the First Dorsland Trek. He was a member of the Gereformeerde Kerk (or 'Dopper' church) and...

in 2014. Humpata was the primary destination of the Trekboers on the Dorsland Trek in the 1870s. These Afrikaners formed the majority population in the...

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gradual Boer expansion and then large-scale Boer migrations, such as the Dorsland Trek, away from British rule in the Cape, Jonker Afrikaner brought his people...

his strongly anti-colonial stance having successfully attacked the Dorsland Trek-Boers in 1886. Continuous attacks on the fort by 500 Ondonga warriors...

Transvaal gold fields and attracts a rush of prospectors. Start of the Dorsland Trek through the Kalahari Desert. KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden...

Great Trek when the Voortrekkers left the eastern Cape en masse, and after the major republics were established during the Thirstland ('Dorsland') Trek. One...

August – In response to the Dorsland Trek, Khama III requests British protection of the region.: xxvi  1877 – The Dorsland Trek migrates through present-day...

institution. Volume Two. London: Zed Books, 1984 De Klerk, F. W. The last Trek. A New Beginning. MacMillan, 1998. [ISBN missing] Dowling, Owen (12 February...

Barend Daniël Bouwer (Ben Bouwer, born during the Dorsland Trek, Damaraland, Southwest Africa, 31 January 1875 – Cape Town, 23 November 1938) was a South...

against intruders into their area. In 1886, Boer settlers on their Dorsland Trek were defeated after they—allegedly fraudulently—acquired land between...

raids. The Nama sold the land around Rehoboth to an agent for the Dorsland Trekkers but, before the Boers could settle there, the German Empire claimed...

the north-west of South Africa settled at Grootfontein. Part of the Dorsland trekkers, they were heading towards Angola. When that territory fell under...

Mpingana (died 1908), King of Ondonga, defeated the settlers of the Dorsland Trek in 1886, and German colonial forces at Fort Namutoni in 1904 Samuel...

departed the Kongwa refugee camp to infiltrate South West Africa. Group 1 trekked first into Angola, before crossing the border into the Caprivi Strip. Encouraged...

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encroaching wave of white settlers (probably early participants of the Dorsland Trek), and to German colonial occupation. He also took pride in conserving...

where the Dorsland Trekkers crossed the Kunene River in 1881 to move into Angola. In commemoration of this migratory movement, the Dorsland Trekkers Monument...

Plessis, and Michiel Prinsloo, then the oldest surviving member of the Dorsland Trek by which Boers first settled the area, unlocked the front door at the...

Cape of Good Hope: Sir John Molteno. May 27 – The first group of Dorsland Trekkers departs from Pretoria to settle in Angola, led by Gert Alberts. Unknown...

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in his business dealings, and even initially refused water to the Dorsland Trekkers on their way to Angola in 1875. He shot over 400 elephants, and the...