The exists include the M1 Uncle Charlies Interchange ( North Eastbound only ), M17 Xavier Street, R556 Kliprivier Drive, M11 Comaro Road, R59 Reading Interchange, and R103 Voortrekker Road ( Alberton ).

Botha initially attended the Paul Roux School and matriculated from Voortrekker Secondary School in Bethlehem, South Africa.

It was named after then President Paul Kruger and Voortrekker hero Piet Joubert.

The first president of the South African Republic was Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, elected in 1857, son of the famous Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, who commanded the Boers to victory at the Battle of Blood River.

The first depiction of a Ridgeback is a wall painting describing the life of the Boers, housed in South Africa in the Voortrekker Monument.

He was the first cousin of Gert Maritz, a well known Voortrekker leader in early Natal history.

At first, Dundee was a farm ( Talana farm ), the property of Peter Smith, which he had bought from a Voortrekker settler, Mr Dekker.

They feel that there were many people of Voortrekker descent who were not co-opted or assimilated into what they see as the Cape-based Afrikaner identity which began emerging after the Second Anglo-Boer War and the subsequent establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

The Voortrekkers are commemorated by the Voortrekker Monument located on Monument Hill overlooking Pretoria, the erstwhile capital of the South African Republic and the current and historic administrative capital of the Republic of South Africa.

The two largest commemoration ceremonies to mark the event in South Africa are held in Pretoria, at the Voortrekker Monument at the Cenotaph ( where it has been held for 84 consecutive years ), and at the War Memorial at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

A similar situation exists with the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa.

South Africa's Voortrekker Monument

A cenotaph is the focal point of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa.

The Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa.

On 8 July 2011 the Voortrekker Monument, designed by the architect Gerard Moerdijk, was declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Heritage Resource Agency.

This Germanisation of the Voortrekker Monument occurred, after Moerdyk's initial design had caused a public outcry in the South African press for its resemblance to an Egyptian temple.

* Pretoria, South Africa: An eternal flame burns in the Voortrekker Monument.

Gert later was the leader of one of the Voortrekker groups to have left the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa to escape the British Colonization of the Cape of Good Hope as well as the continual cross border raids by the Xhosa to their north.

Jansen was a founder member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ( the " South African Academy for Science and Art ") in 1909, of the Saamwerk-Unie (" Co-operation Union ") in 1917, of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (" Federation of Afrikaner Cultural Associations ") in 1929, and of the Voortrekkers ( the Afrikaner equivalent of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides ) in 1930, and was master of ceremonies at the laying of the foundation stone of the Voortrekker Monument in 1938 and at its dedication in 1949.

It was renamed Voortrekkerhoogte (" Voortrekker Heights ") in 1939 by the government of the Union of South Africa, following the beginning of the building of the nearby Voortrekker Monument, at a time of growing Afrikaner nationalism.

Sarie was a legendary Voortrekker woman who died, aged 37, with the birth of her 11th child and is immortalised by the eponymous song, an indelible part of South African culture.

Moerdijk created a similar central focus in the Voortrekker Monument, but in vertical instead of horisontal plane, and in African instead of European style.

In the northern part of the territory a Voortrekker Republic was established at Winburg in 1837.

After the British annexation of the Natalia Republic, most local Voortrekker Boers trekked north into Transorangia, later known as the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal.

" Fort Road " got its name from a British fort at the end of the road and was renamed " Voortrekker Street " during the National Party's publicity campaign.

Winburg was a very neat town, known for its good school, concrete streets, sandstone church, orphanage, fully equipped hospital, many professional inhabitants and businesses, agricultural cooperations, yogurt milk and butter factories, good community health services, social support structures, quality sport and recreational facilities, caravan park, hotels and Rietfontein water reservoir in the Laaispruit and the Voortrekker Monument and museum.

Pretoria was named after the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius.

A ' church town ', Botharnia, was established in 1891 on a portion of Gladdedrift farm, by Voortrekker JP van Wyk who left Pretoria after religious persecution.

The town was founded by the Voortrekkers in 1883 and named it after the Voortrekker leader, Piet Retief, who was killed by the Zulus under their King Dingane's orders after he tried to settle on their land.

The town was established by the Voortrekkers and named Potgietersrus after the slain Voortrekker leader Piet Potgieter.

During recent times, mainly during the apartheid reform and post-1994 eras, many more white Afrikaans-speaking people, mainly with " conservative " political views and of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent, have preferred to be called " Boers " or Boere-Afrikaners, rather than " Afrikaners ".

In the 1830s, a Boer Voortrekker named Daniel Elardus Erasmus left the Cape Colony and settled in the area near present-day Irene.

d ) A small Voortrekker monument is erected on Elandsfontein, General De la Rey's farm, in commemoration of the late Boer leader.

When Dingane sent an impi ( armed force ) of around twelve thousand Zulu warriors to attack the local contingent of Voortrekkers in response, the Voortrekkers defended themselves at a battle at Nacome River ( called the Battle of Blood River ) on 16 December 1838 where the vastly outnumbered Voortrekker contingent defeated the Zulu warriors.

Dingane suffered a crushing defeat on 16 December 1838, when he attacked a group of 470 Voortrekker settlers led by Pretorius at the Battle of Blood River.

Before his Voortrekker Monument proposal was accepted, Moerdijk and Anton van Wouw had been working in alliance for many years on their " dream castle " project: a modern African-Egytian Voortrekker Temple in South-Africa.

Whilst finalising the design of the Voortrekker Monument in 1936, Moerdijk went on a research trip to Egypt.

The Bottling Company Restaurant on the corner of Voortrekker and Piet Retief streets serves food.

Jacobus van Zijl, a Voortrekker elder, established a church on his farm Keerom in 1866.

Winburg was originally selected as the site for the main Voortrekker Monument, but Pretoria won favour and a five-tiered secondary Voortrekker monument was built on the outskirts of Winburg instead in the 1950s.

* Mayor on demolotion of Voortrekker Monument