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Voortrekker Monument

Source: http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/eclipse_2001/figures/H12voort.html

by John Walker

July, 2001

This document is in the public domain.

The Voortrekker Monument outside Pretoria was completed in 1949. Inside is a marble frieze containing 27 panels commemorating events of the Great Trek in which settlers of Dutch origin emigrated from Cape Colony to the Transvaal between 1835 and 1854. At the centre of the monument is the cenotaph which bears the inscription "We for thee, South Africa". An opening in the dome atop the monument is positioned so that every year at noon on the 16th of December a beam of sunlight illuminates the cenotaph. Prior to the 1994 elections which brought Nelson Mandela to power, December 16th was celebrated as the "Day of the Vow", commemorating the massacre of the Zulus in the Battle of Blood River; it remains a holiday but is now called "Reconciliation Day". Surrounding the monument is a circular wall with reliefs representing the wagons of voortrekkers pulled into a circle.

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Taken from de-Wikipedia, where it had been uploaded by Head under the same filename.

Les pages ci-dessous contiennent cette image :

• Pretoria
• Grand Trek