The northward march of the voortrekkers was a gigantic plundering raid. ❋ Solomon Tshekisho (1916)
This victory of the 'voortrekkers' cleared all the country between the ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
The final victory of the 'voortrekkers' cleared all the country between the Orange River and the Limpopo, the sites of what have been known as the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
The white settlers (voortrekkers) arrived in late 1837. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They suffered for a very long time, from attacks by the Boer voortrekkers, invasion by the British settler-colonialists, oppression under apartheid, repression during the bantustan era and now divisions over Bogoshi. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Freedom Front leader Dr Pieter Mulder has asked the country not to forget the vow made by voortrekkers on December 16, 1838. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Afrikaner nationalists who believed that God delivered the voortrekkers from the Zuls in the former Natal, now known as ❋ Unknown (2001)
The councillors needed to be "pathfinders" and "voortrekkers" because South Africa did not have experience in this form of government. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Thus history has granted all of us the privilege to be the midwives of a new nation, to transform the ethos of our society from despair to hope, to be pioneers and voortrekkers on the road to a glorious future, which none of us have ever traversed. ❋ Unknown (1996)
Disputes between traders, prospectors, and voortrekkers from the two realms had repeatedly brought on armed clashes. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)
Reversing her policy, she gave independence to the Transvaal voortrekkers in 1852 and to the Orange Free State in 1854, repudiated her alliances with coloured peoples north of the ❋ Ray Esther (1969)
The older people here will call to mind, when the old voortrekkers were obliged to go hundreds of miles, as far as Pietermaritzburg, for their supplies, that we prayed for shopkeepers in our land so that we might be spared those long journeys. ❋ C. H. Thomas (N/A)
He had blessings in store for the tried voortrekkers and their children. ❋ C. H. Thomas (N/A)
The old voortrekkers who emigrated from the Cape Colony all belonged to the Dutch Reformed Protestant persuasion. ❋ C. H. Thomas (N/A)
From the days that the voortrekkers endeavoured to escape English rule, from the day that they sought the hospitality of Chief Moroka, the history of the treatment of the blacks north of the ❋ Solomon Tshekisho (1916)
No doubt the Rev.Mr. Archbell, the Wesleyan Methodist missionary and apostle to the Barolong, played an active part on the Barolong Relief Committee, and, at that time, there were no more grateful people on earth than Hendrik Potgieter and his party of stricken voortrekkers. ❋ Solomon Tshekisho (1916)
But yet he gave it in full belief that it would be burned, and that, the boats of Smoots Beste being consumed with it, according to the thick judgment of the said Smoots, it would be as a pillar of fire behind that slim child of the old voortrekkers, hastening his journey north-eastwards. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
Stock Exchange speculators, the wealthy fruit-farmers, or cereal-growers, or cattle and sheep breeders, who are descended themselves from the old pioneers and voortrekkers, but they do not get a better education than was to be had at the Convent school at Gueldersdorp, where the Sisters of ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
It was in the great stone-built chimney of the disused, half-ruined farmhouse kitchen, a solid cube of masonry reared by the stout hands of the old voortrekkers of 1836, its walls, three feet in thickness, embracing the wide hearth about which the family life of the homestead had concentrated itself in the past. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
