- Title
- View of the Karel Landman Monument
- Creator
- Reynolds, Rex
- Subject
- Karel Landman Monument -- Alexandria District -- Eastern Cape Eastern Cape Frontier Karel Landman Voortrekker Monument (South Africa) Butler, Guy, 1918-2001
- Type
- Image
- Identifier
- vital:21593
- Identifier
- This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/10435
- Identifier
- PIC/M 5263
- Description
- The Karel Landman Monument in the Sundays River Valley Rural, Eastern Cape, was designed by Gerard Moerdyk and built by the Lupini Brothers. It was unveiled on 16 December 1939 by W A L Landman. It honours Karel Landman who farmed in this area until 1837 when he became a leader in the Great Trek. He led a party of 180 Trekkers and their servants on a trek of 885 kilometres into Natal where he was prominent in several battles with the Zulus and he was second in command of the Boer forces at the pivotal battle of Blood River. The commemoration of Karel Landman and his trek, in this 3m globe with an ox wagon traversing it, was an initiative of the National Party and the councils of the Dutch Reformed Church in two neighbouring villages, Alexandria and Paterson. Legend has it that the councils could not agree which village should 'host’ the monument, so it was placed on this remote koppie overlooking the surrounding countryside, between the two villages.
- Description
- F G Butler (donor)
- Format
- jpg
- Relation
- F.G. Butler Photo Collection
- Rights
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images, apply to Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
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