An ambitious extension of the Great Trek, this expedition had as its primary objective the opening of an independent trade route to the sea for the newly established voortrekker republics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

The takhaar was the modern type of the old voortrekker.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Boer Forces] Reference

Did some thoughtful old voortrekker carry peach stones in his pocket, and, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference

Piet de Klerk was a modern-era voortrekker, arriving from the Cape in 1953 with dreams of farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

'President Brand,' says Paul Botha (himself a voortrekker and a Boer of the Boers), 'saw clearly what our policy ought to have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct] Reference

How this came about cannot be expressed more clearly than in the words of Paul Botha, who, as I have already said, was a voortrekker like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct] Reference

Or did some small boy voortrekker, munching, from the pocket of his blesbuck-skin jacket, dried fruit sent up by some kind tante from the far south, carelessly throw aside a stone which had been accidentally included, and was that the ancestor of those trees which used to afford us so many delightful feasts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference

She breezed past "voortrekker" and "Weissnichtwo.".    From Wordnik.com.  [pjstar.com Home RSS] Reference