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  1. Great Trek 1835-1846

    Great Trek 1835-1846. The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own homeland, independent of British rule. The determination and courage of these pioneers has become the single most important element in the folk memory of Afrikaner ...

  2. PDF THE GREAT TREK

    Definitions Trek; to move away. Voortrekker; one who treks in front of others. Boer; farmer, from the Dutch/Africans, or from the German Bauer. It was 1488 before Portuguese explorer, Bartholomew Diaz, rounded the African Cape and landed a small party of sailors to replenish their dwindling water supplies.

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    Retief, a man of great courage and extraordinary qualities of leader ship. At first they headed north, and crossed the Grootriver, or Orange River, into what is to-day known as the Orange Free State, the central province of the Union of South Africa. There, on the banks of the Caledon River, the Trek split into two, one half heading

  4. The Great Trek (Ch20).Pdf

    The Great Trek (Ch20).Pdf. THE 'GREAT TREK' he term 'Boer Trek' was first coined by Neil Parsons in his New History of Southern Africa (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1982). At the time of the migration of Boers from the eastern Cape Colony to beyond the Orange TRiver in the late 1830s, it was neither a single 'trek' (from the Afrikaans ...

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    Piet Retief. Great Trek, the emigration of some 12,000 to 14,000 Boers from Cape Colony in South Africa between 1835 and the early 1840s, in rebellion against the policies of the British government and in search of fresh pasturelands. The Great Trek is regarded by Afrikaners as a central event of their 19th-century history and the origin of ...

  6. (PDF) Norman Etherington, The Great Treks

    View PDF. 1 Norman Etherington, The Great Treks Baba G. Jallow In The Great Treks (2001) Norman Etherington raises a number of pertinent and often surprisingly unconventional questions about issues hitherto taken for granted by historians of South Africa. Was there one single Great Trek as previously assumed by most historians, or were there ...

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    The Great Trek by Ransford, Oliver, 1914-Publication date 1974 Topics South Africa -- History -- Great Trek, 1836-1840, South Africa, South Africa Great Trek, 1836-1837 Publisher London : Cardinal Collection ... EPUB and PDF access not available for this item. IN COLLECTIONS

  8. (PDF) The Great Treks: The Transformation of South Africa, 1815-1854

    The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854. Norman Etherington, iThe Great Treks: The Transformation of. The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854.

  9. The great treks : the transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854

    The great treks : the transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854 by Etherington, Norman. ... 2001 Topics South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878, South Africa -- History -- Great Trek, 1836-1840 Publisher New York : Longman Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key ...

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    re and to society. Lord Caledon's successor, Sir John Cradock (afterwards created Lo. FIRST KAFIR WAR9his fascinating consort, Lady Theodosia, continued to keep up that hospitality, and to render the government both eff. cient and popular.An end had just been put to the first Kafir war, in which the Cape colonists, with the aid of a small ...

  11. PDF Th e Great Trek

    The Great Trek Centenary, 1936. This was a seminal event in Boer history and did much to stir Afrikaner nationalism. Although the Great Trek Centenary was celebrated across the country, the primary event was held over several days at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, with all the participants in period dress.

  12. Was the Great Trek really great? A historiographical inquiry ...

    The Great Trek increased the conflicts between the Boers and indigenous tribes, but, on the other hand, stimulated trade between black and white groups. It would appear that in their various interpretations of the consequences of the Great Trek historians were influenced by the circumstances of their own time.

  13. The Great Treks : The Transformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854

    The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the emergence of a new Zulu kingdom as a major military force in the early 19th century - offers an ...

  14. Was the Great Trek really great? A historiographical inquiry into the

    The Great Trek was a key event in the history of South Africa, comparable with events such as the British conquest of the Cape Colony in 1806 and the transfer of political power to the black ...

  15. PDF The History of the Great Boer Trek and the Origin of the South African

    The History of the Great Boer Trek and the Origin of the South African Republics. This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the ...

  16. The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch

    The Voortrekkers The Great Trek was a landmark in an era of expansionism and bloodshed, of land seizure and labour coercion. Taking the form of a mass migration into the interior of southern Africa, this was a search by dissatisfied Dutch-speaking colonists for a promised land where they would be 'free and independent people' in a 'free and ...

  17. PDF South African History Online

    The Great Trek, which heralded a new era in South Africa's history 150 years ago, was celebrated this year. Treks by ox- wagon took place all over the country. Here the ox-wagon of the Federasle van A trlkaanse Kultuurvereniglnge (federation of Afrikaans cultural societies) starts the long journey northwards from Cape Town to Pretoria

  18. Great Trek

    The Great Trek (Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek [di ˌχruət ˈtrɛk]; Dutch: De Grote Trek [də ˌɣroːtə ˈtrɛk]) was a northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration. [1] The Great Trek resulted from the culmination of ...

  19. What was the Great Trek?

    The Great Trek was a perilous exodus of pioneers into the heart of South Africa, looking for a place to call home. When the British took control of Cape Town and the Cape Colony in the early 1800s, tensions grew between the new colonizers of British stock, and the old colonizers, the Boers, descendants of the original Dutch settlers. From 1835 ...

  20. The Great Treks : The Transformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854

    The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Afrikaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the emergence of a new Zulu kingdom as a major military force in the early 19th century - offers an ...

  21. Great Trek (1835-1840)

    Great Trek (1835-1840) The Great Trek (Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek; Dutch: De Grote Trek) was an eastward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration.

  22. The Great Trek

    The Great Trek The Great Trek Credit: James E. McConnell, painter, (1903-1995) You might also be interested in… Lesson Save. 10 Questions for the Future: Student Action Project Students create a plan for enacting change on an issue that they are most passionate about using the 10 Questions Framework. ...

  23. 'Translating' the Great Trek to the Twentieth Century: Re

    The Afrikaner 'Myth' of the Great Trek The established foil for literary re-interpretations or translations of the Great Trek is formed by a set of 'myths' that appropriate the historical events for the construction of an Afrikaner identity and the Afrikaner 'nation.'2 What is today known as the Great Trek, a term that was only introduced in ...