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Voortrek (old)

Should the Voortrek really be listed on this page? I suggest that it be moved to Great Trek, presently a redirect. --Smack 16:22, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. The Voortrekkers page is a more detailed description of the Trek than this one in any case - I think that it should be used as the base for an article located at Voortrek (the word for the trek in the language of its participants - and I just like the word, personally), a page I just created as a redirect to "Trek", with Great Trek redirecting to that. Anybody have any opinions on that? --Oystertoadfish 2:31, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cause of the Great Trek

The principal causes of the Great Trek are not quite as listed in the article. In 1835 British rule had been imposed "recently", says the article. Not true. If that was the cause the trek would have been a generation earlier. No the main cause was the abolition of slavery in 1834! Comment invited. Paul Beardsell 12:13, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The main cause of the trek was not the abolition of slavery as the Boers did not own any slaves, and did not endorse slavery. The main Reason was because of the British. The British may of came a generation earlier, thats why so many people moved away from the cape but the British was extending their rule and the Boers moved further and further away from the cape until they decided to go on a mass migration to the east to fully escape British rule and gain their own rule to have the freedom and independence that so many of their ancestors had fled their homelands for. The Boer and Afrikaners are not the same cultures, the Afrikaners were Dutch with a Dutch culture, which used slaves, while the Boers did not use slaves at all, they had laborers but they were paid and most of these laborers decided to go on the Great Trek with the Voortrekkers.

Sources Am I the only person who finds the "Further Reading" link ridiculously biased?

No. SalJyDieBoereKomLei 20:27, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

@SalJyDieBoereKomLei the trek was caused because tge British didnot like the way the Boers mistreated the slaves 154.226.75.206 (talk) 17:28, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Iam here to argue and say that the is no clear answer as to what exactly were the causes of the great trek. Reason to say that is that people mentioned different aspects or causes of this movement. I would agree that the causes of the great trek include abolition of slavery. As when British came into the cape abolished slavery, please not that Boers are Afrikaners, Boers is a person who plant Afrikaners are people who speaks Afrikaans. So Boers depended onto the slaves for farming, that is why they ran away because they wanted to continue with using ordinary people as their slaves to their territories. Another point that led to the Great trek was that Afrikaners were running away to be ruled by British. Mlungisi Zwelihle Gumede (talk) 13:17, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Not in the body of the article: Should't the link to the YouTube video "Die Bou van 'n Nasie" be in the External links section instead than in the body of the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.125.70.214 (talk) 21:05, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Afrikaans / Afrikaner

At some places where the term Afrikaans is used, one should write Afrikaner. --105.12.7.58 (talk) 11:15, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to merge Voortrekkers into here

Voortrekkers seems to cover the same ground as this article, just with less detail. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 17:55, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As for the direction of merge, "Great Trek" also has more results on Google and Google Books than "Voortrekkers" (G: 203,000,000 vs 384,000 ; GB: 1,450,000 vs 73,200) and puts the emphasis on the historical trend as a whole, not just its participants. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 18:16, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone through the Voortrekkers article in detail and am 100% sure it covers exactly the same events, only in less detail, not as well or neutrally written, and with fewer citations. The only things that will be lost are the long list of redlinked names of different Voortrekker leaders (which I don't see as having much encyclopedic value) and a random line about Modimolle. I'm going to go ahead with the merge. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 13:51, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]