Tregardt Trek 1835-1838 (Lourenco Marques Gedenktuin 1968)

Tregardt Trek 1835-1838 (Lourenco Marques Gedenktuin 1968)

The Louis Tregardt Trek memorial garden is in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), the capital of Mozambique. A commemorative plaque in memory of the Voortrekker leader was unveiled on 12 October 1968 during a visit to the city by the South African Navy ships SAS Simon van der Stel, Kimberley and Mosselbaai.

Louis Tregardt is acknowledged as the most prominent member of the "Voorste Mense' (leading people) of the Great Trek. He formed a group of nine families who set out from the Cape in 1836 and after two years reached Delagoa Bay in the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique. He had hoped to settle there as a farmer and trader but he and many in his party died soon after arrival from Malaria. (Laidlaw# 0133).