Laerskool Eugène N Marais in Mookgophong, previously Naboomspruit, decided recently to donate their “kakebeenwa” to the Voortrekker Monument (VTM).

Mr Cooper smiled broadly as he explained the arduous task of copying original wagon designs from a collector in Nylstroom, after he and a friend were inspired by a display at the Blood River Museum.

I was sitting on an ox wagon led by a real hat-rimmed ... And it is, yessir, here at the Voortrekker Monument, it is. Every month the trek sets off, again. For six days, as the moon waxes ...

The Voortrekker Monument - once the great temple of apartheid - has been forced, like the Afrikaner people, to evolve with a changing South Africa. The once-proud, mausoleum-like edifice now has a ...

The Voortrekker Monument was once the great temple of apartheid, ... He hopes to open a cultural village with displays on how Afrikaner settlers built wagon wheels and baked bread in termite mound ...

Are you listening, Edith Piaf?I regret almost everything: going to the matric dance looking like a Voortrekker wagon. Gazing through the heartless face paint, a 50-year-old woman trying to be 40 ...

First, the Voortrekker Monument is a section 21 company – a company not for gain, in other words – and second it isn’t a national monument and thus doesn’t qualify for any government spending.