The Voortrekkers : Story of the Great Trek and the Making of South Africa Johannes Meintjes

The Voortrekkers : Story of the Great Trek and the Making of South Africa Johannes Meintjes

Hardcover with dustjacket, 1973 first edition, 287 pages

Dust jacket shows some wear and tear - see images. Dust jacket stuck to the back cover. Previous owner's signature and inscription on the front page. Some yellowing with time. Original sticker price on the back cover.

Tight, solid binding, good condition overall, unique illustrations.

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Starting in 1836 in southern Africa, was a mass migration of Dutch-speaking inhabitants of the British-run Cape Colony, who left the Cape and travelled eastward by wagon train, into the interior of the continent, in order to live beyond the reach of the British colonial administration. Both the Cape Colony and the area newly settled by the migrants later became part of what is today the country of South Africa. The Great Trek was spurred by rising tensions between rural descendants of the Capes original, mostly Dutch, European settlers, known collectively as Boers, and the later, mostly British, settlers, who had taken control of the Cape on behalf of the British Empire. It was also spurred by an increasing yearning among members of the various Boer communities to live in a more isolationist, semi-nomadic way than had become possible in Cape Town, which was becoming much more administratively complex under British management. Boers who took part in the Great Trek identified themselves as voortrekkers, meaning pioneers or pathfinders (literally fore-trekkers) in Dutch and Afrikaans.
The Great Trek led directly to the founding of several autonomous Boer republics, namely the South African Republic (also known simply as the Transvaal), the Orange Free State, and the Natalia Republic. It was also responsible for the displacement of the Northern Ndebele people, and was one of several decisive factors influencing the decline and collapse of the Zulu Kingdom

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