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  1. Great Trek 1835-1846

    Learn about the Great Trek, a mass migration of Dutch-speaking colonists into the interior of southern Africa in search of land and independence from British rule. Explore the causes, consequences and controversies of this historical event and its impact on Afrikaner nationalism and indigenous peoples.

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    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 their nationhood. It enabled them to outflank the Xhosa peoples ...

  3. 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.

  4. PDF Th e Great Trek

    The Great Trek was the epicentre of a cultural, economic, military and social explosion that spanned the length of this country, leaving behind a legacy that should be treasured forever. The story of the Voortrekkers is often associated with the Afrikaners.

  5. The Great Trek : Ransford, Oliver, 1914- : Free Download, Borrow, and

    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

  6. 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.

  7. (PDF) Norman Etherington, The Great Treks

    See Full PDFDownload 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. PDF South African History Online

    known as the Great Trek and those who took part as Voortrekkers. One of the key events of South African history, its significance and consequences are yet to be fully understood. The trek culminated in the Battle of Blood River and the defeat of Dingane, king of the Zulus, in December 1838. A century later, in 1938, the trek was of-

  10. (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.

  11. 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 ...

  12. (DOC) The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch

    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. ... Download Free PDF. The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch ... Journal of South African Studies special issue: Rethinking South Africa's Past, Essays ...

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    The Great Trek (Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek [di ˌχruət 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. The Great Trek resulted from the culmination of tensions between rural descendants of the Cape's ...

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    The Great Trek will be looked at under two fairly conventional headings, viz. causes and consequences, as seen by various Black writers. In addition an attempt will be made to provide an insight into Black perceptions of both the Great Trek and the Voortrekkers. Within these two major categories I shall outline the interpretations of each ...

  15. 93 Anthropo.geographical Aspects of The Great Trek

    ANTHROPO.GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE GREAT TREK, 1836.1863. The Great Trek denotesmore than the literal departure from the Cape Colony. It also denotesthe settlement in the interior, the organization of a state and community, the resultant political movementsand the structure or pattern of the new state. The Great Trek extended over a long ...

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    Interpretations. - the Great Trek has been the subject of disparate interpretations. (1) Flight from bondage in the land of Egypt. - this was the line of self-justification taken by the Voortrekkers themselves. They complained of a number of grievances and 'injustices' under British rule.

  17. The Great Trek (Ch20).Pdf

    A PDF document that explains the term, motives, and significance of the Boer migration from the Cape Colony to beyond the Orange River in the 1830s. It also traces the historiography and mythology of the 'Great Trek' in South African history.

  18. '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 ...

  19. The Great Trek

    The Great Trek Credit: James E. McConnell, painter, (1903-1995) You might also be interested in… Lesson Save. The 1968 East LA School Walkouts Students learn about education, identity, and activism through an exploration of the East Los Angeles school walkouts, when thousands of students protested unequal educational opportunities for Mexican ...

  20. Great Trek (1835-1840)

    From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 #19. John Laband. 276 pages 20 b/w ills, 5 b/w photos, 14 colour ills, 4 colour photos, 13 maps. Paperback £29.95. Including FREE UK delivery. Despatched within 1-2 working days. Buy Now. View Great Trek (1835-1840) military history books available to buy online from Helion & Company.

  21. The Great Trek 175: Story or history?

    The history of the Great Trek between 1836 and 1844, especially in the Potchefstroom area, is a good example. This article aims to establish a narrative for the two historical novels by Hans du Plessis, Die pad na Skuilhoek and As die wind kom draai. Myths are markers of the identity of a group.

  22. South Africa: The Great Trek 1836-46 -The Map Archive

    South Africa: The Great Trek 1836-46. $ 3.95. Map Code: Ax00124. The Great Trek is the name given to the exodus of 12,000-14,000 Boers from British Cape Colony. Frustrated by the colony's Anglicization policies, restrictions on slave labour and population pressures intensified by drought and increasing inward migration, they chose to look ...

  23. Great Trek

    The Great Trek was a very important event in the history of South Africa . It came about because of disagreements between British and Afrikaner settlers in the colony known as the Cape Colony. As a result of the disagreements, many Afrikaner farmers moved away from the Cape Colony and established their own colonies. This was a first step in ...