Voortrekker Monument
The Voortrekker Monument is a monument in Pretoria in South Africa. It is a massive granite structure on a hilltop. It was built to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854.
Most of the Voortrekkers were not satisfied with the British government that ruled over them in the Cape in those years, that is why they packed their ox wagons and started to trek to greener valleys to the north of current South Africa.
The Voortrekker Monument is an important structure to the white Afrikaner bloodline (children), because it shows many pictures, reliefs and statutes inside the building of what happened in the history of those years.
Coordinates: 25°46′35″S 28°10′33″E / 25.77639°S 28.17583°E
Voortrekker Monument Media
Wounded Voortrekker at Vegkop, detail of the historical frieze
View of the Hall of Heroes in the Voortrekker Monument
Cenotaph in the cenotaph hall of the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria; the symbolic tomb of the Retief delegation who were massacred by order of Dingane in 1838. The inscription: We for thee South Africa
The wagon laager wall features 64 wagons
Voortrekker woman and children by Anton van Wouw
Piet Retief statue at the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, designed by F. Kruger and carved by Skaris
The cenotaph is the symbolic tomb of Piet Retief and his delegation.
Looking from the sky dome downwards, 32 sun rays can be counted, reflecting the masonic influence of the architecture
Relief of an ox-wagon on the laager wall
Looking upwards at mid noon on 16 December reveals a dot within a circle, the ancient African-Egyptian hieroglyph for the monotheistic creator god Aten
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