The Day of the Vow / Battle of Blood River

[Wheels]

To all of our Afrikaner friends,

We salute you today!

You have an amazing history.

Safe travels if you are going to the monument.



ONS VIR JOU SUDAFRIKA




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blood_River

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Vow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voortrekker_Monument

 

[BRICKBURN]

 

[Royal27]

I actually had this holiday explained to me yesterday. It reminds me of U.S. Thanksgiving and Independence Day all rolled into one.

If you haven't, check out the links that Wheels put up. Pretty dang cool!!!!

 

[Wheels]

One of our AH outfitters at the Voortrekker Monument.

The Cenotaph

 

[CAustin]

Salute to all.

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

A beautiful story of a great nation.
Witold

 

[Wheels]

@Bos en Dal Safaris Boet, I mentioned that I remembered open fields and not very many trees the first time I visited the Monument. This is my parents photo. I believe the photo was taken from the driveway down by the highway. This thread made me start digging into the archives. Photo had been printed on paper leading to poor quality.

 

[Pheroze]

Thank you for posting this. I enjoyed learning about this very fascinating holiday.

 

[Jfet]

What it takes to pack up your family and move into the unknown in order to better provide for them is a tremendous testimony to the human spirit.

 

[Bruce]

Makes me think of my late grandmother, an 1894 pioneer & early settler into the new Rhodesia. Their wagon trains left Edenburg in the Cape and travelled to Melsetter / Chipinga area of the then Rhodesia... she was just 6 yrs old!! Hers was the second great trek into Rhodesia, following behind the trail blazing trek of the Moodie family, I believe in 1892. Her vivid stories of this trek are clear in our minds... she used to tell these to us when we were still small kids. A brave and very wise woman, her family originally from the Isle of Man and went to the colonies ( now RSA ) with the 1820 settlers, settling mostly in the EASTERN CAPE and gradually migrating North.

 

[Bos en Dal SAFARIS]

@Wheels those are some old pictures you have there!! Great place and a big day in our history!!