Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
2528CC32
Site Name
The Voortrekker Monument, Groenkloof 358-Jr, Pretoria
Site Category
Monuments & Memorials
Record Administration
Author
Boitumelo.Mokgosi
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:30
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
Monuments & Memorials Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 20:50.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
9/2/258/0097
Recording date
Recorders
Precious Chauke
Primary?
Off
Classifications
Monument Type
Commemorative Monument
Description

Voortrekker Monument was build to honour the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony in their thousands between 1835 and 1854.

Contains Animal figures?
No
Contains Human figures?
No
Builder
Gerard Moerdijk
Designer
Gerard Moerdijk
Construction Date Comment
1949
Construction Materials
Granite
Pedestal Material
Stones
Person/Institution Commemorated
Voortrekker Monument
Event Commemorated
War between the Voortrekkers and Zulu's
Unveiled Comment
Dr DF Malan
Inscriptions
The Voortrekker Monument was build between 1937 and 1949 in the Art Deco style ,Three direct descendants of Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief ,Andries Pretorius and Hendrick Potgieter laid the corner stone on 16 December 1838 .It was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister DR DF Malan in presence of approximately 250000 people on 16 December 1949 .The Monument commemorates those pioneers who participated in a migration between 1835 and 1854 called the Great Trek .During this period approximately 15000 pioneers moved northward across the Orange River and Drakensberg into the interior of South Africa .The founding of the Boer Republics Transvaal (1852) and the Orange Free State (1854) was a direct result of the Great Trek .
Archaeology Recordings
Submitted by bonga.mapundu on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:52.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
9/2/258/0097
Recording date
Primary?
Yes
Location
Location
Mapping
-25.77633, 28.175801
Gauteng
  • City of Tshwane
Access details
Security guard at the gate, not easily accessible, inside the yard another gate that gets lock around 17:00 hours daily.
Grading
Autoid
Grading - 250026
Submitted by
Submitted by nobukho.njemla on 17/03/2015 - 12:29.
Grading
Grade I
Grading Date
GradingComment

Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

Autoid
Grading - 249607
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
GradingComment

archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

Statement of Significance

This site is named for the architecturally unique Art Deco Monument, of which the idea was first mooted by Pres. S.J.P. Kruger in 1888 and which was constructed between 1937 and 1949 with funds made available, inter alia by the then Smuts-government. Numerous other examples of culturally significant, tangible heritage structure are present on the 340ha site. The site is also significant due to the number of culturally important events which took place over the years which is directly related to the intangible cultural heritage of the Afrikaners._x000D_
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The Monument commemorates the Great Trek, focussing on 16 December 1838 when the Zulu army was defeated and the course of the history of the interior was altered. It also serves to remind South Africans of the epitome of Afrikaner Nationalism which forms part of the landscape of South African political history which has had an undeniable effect on the way in which the new democratic South Africa has developed.

Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration - 220287
Declaration Type
National Heritage Site
Gazette Date
Gazette Number
34421
Gazette Notice Status
Current
Notice Date
Notice Number
549
Declared by (Organisation/Heritage Authority)
South African Heritage Resources Agency
8-7-2011 549.pdf (128.34 KB)
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