Pretoria and the Mine Dancers
August 4th 1968 The major sight in Pretoria is the Voortrekker Monument on a hill overlooking the city. It was built in 1937-1949 to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854 to settle the interior of South Africa and escape British rule. It is something like a large temple, and I suppose that is what it was to the Afrikaners. The inside space is surrounded by a 27-panel marble f
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