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    Great Trek (redirect from Voortrekkers)
    Town. Boers who took part in the Great Trek identified themselves as voortrekkers, meaning "pioneers" or "pathfinders" (literally "fore-trekkers") in Dutch...
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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...
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    The Voortrekkers is an Afrikaner youth organisation, founded in South Africa in 1931, for Afrikaner boys and girls. It tries to develop resilience, service...
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  • Trek. Voortrekkers may also refer to: Voortrekker (yacht), a racing yacht Voortrekkers (youth organisation), a youth organisation Voortrekker High School...
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  • Voortrekker High School (Afrikaans: Hoërskool Voortrekker) may refer to: Voortrekker High School (Pietermaritzburg) Voortrekker High School (Cape Town)...
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  • Voortrekker High School is a public, co-education, dual-medium (Afrikaans and English) High School situated in Cordwalles Road, Pietermaritzburg, South...
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    Voortrekker leader Piet Retief visited Dingane at his royal kraal to negotiate a land deal for the voortrekkers. In November, about 1,000 Voortrekker...
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  • Voortrekker is a 50-foot (15 m) racing yacht that became famous for placing first on handicap in the 1968 Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race and for placing...
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    Rensburg (12 August 1779 – July 1836) was a leader of one of the early Voortrekker groups. His entire group of 51 people was massacred by an 'impi' of Manukosi...
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    Hoërskool Voortrekker is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high school situated in the municipality of Boksburg in the city of Ekurhuleni in the...
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    for Afrikaners goes back to the Day of the Vow, which commemorates the Voortrekker victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838...
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    farmer from the Cape Colony's eastern frontier, who became an early voortrekker leader. Shunning colonial authority, he emigrated in 1834 to live among...
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  • Bethlehem Voortrekker High School is a public co-education dual medium High School situated in Wesweg, Bethlehem, South Africa. Voortrekker High School...
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    Pieter Mauritz Retief (12 November 1780 – 6 February 1838) was a Voortrekker leader. Settling in 1814 in the frontier region of the Cape Colony, he later...
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    known as Hendrik Potgieter (19 December 1792 – 16 December 1852) was a Voortrekker leader. He served as the first head of state of Potchefstroom from 1840...
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    which has caused some public controversy. Pretoria is named after the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, and South Africans sometimes call it the "Jacaranda...
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  • Voortrekker High School is a school in the Western Cape. The school first opened as an Afrikaans language school for white students in 1934 and was the...
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    British control, in a series of migrant groups who came to be known as Voortrekkers, meaning "pathfinders" or "pioneers". They migrated to the future Natal...
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    Petrus Lafras Uys (more commonly known as Piet Uys) (1797–1838) was a Voortrekker leader during the Great Trek. He was born in Swellendam, the third son...
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    Moerdyk, was a South African architect best known for designing the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. Both Moerdyk's parents were Dutch immigrants, who...
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    ("Voortrekker Heights") in 1939 by the government of the Union of South Africa, following the beginning of the building of the nearby Voortrekker Monument...
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    Ncome River, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between 464 Voortrekkers ("Pioneers"), led by Andries Pretorius, and an estimated 25,000 to 30...
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    constitution. He was born in Cape Colony, then accompanied his father, the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius in the migration to the interior. After the...
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  • Voortrekker Fort/Ohrigstad Fort was constructed before 1847 to act as a refuge for local Voortrekker families due to the constant attacks of local Bantu...
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    time. The Voortrekkers established the Republic of Natalia in 1839, with its capital at Pietermaritzburg. Tension between the Voortrekkers and the Zulus...
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  • Race, Dalling was selected out of 40 applicants to skipper the yacht Voortrekker, a 50 ft ketch designed by the naval architect, Ricus van de Stadt, and...
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    the voortrekkers led by Piet Retief 11 April - Battle of Italeni where Zulus repulsed the Voortrekkers close to uMgungundlovu. 11 April - Voortrekker leaders...
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  • have returned profitable gains. Gert later was the leader of one of the Voortrekker groups to have left the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa to escape...
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    became Grensboere ('border farmers') who were the direct ancestors of the Voortrekkers. The Boers addressed several correspondence to the British Colonial Government...
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    with the newly arrived Voortrekkers.[citation needed] In November 1837 Dingane met with Piet Retief, leader of the Voortrekkers. In return for their recovering...
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