Great Trek

noun

1. history the migration of Boer farmers with their slaves and African servants from the Cape Colony to the north and east from about 1836 to 1845 to escape British authority

Example Sentences

Around the perimeter, the Afrikaner artist Le Roux Smith Le Roux painted five 18.7-foot-tall murals glorifying more than 100 years of brutal colonial history, including the discovery of gold deposits near what is now Johannesburg and the Great Trek of the late 1830s, during which white Afrikaners left the British-dominated Cape Colony to annex Indigenous land for the creation of more conservative territories, including the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

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The great trek lies waiting, a symbol for the exploration to come.

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“The great trek started today and will last six days. This is a journey that the president is leading, a journey through the past to appreciate the present,” Museveni’s senior press secretary, Don Wanyama, said.

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The most major episodes of black suffering in South Africa, such as the “Great Trek” of the 19th century, in which Afrikaner pioneers occupied formerly black-held land, were simply never addressed.

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The migrants who pass through this desert outpost seek invisibility even before they begin the great trek north.

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