Category: Monuments

This 3.4m x 2.35m granite monument, featuring shades of red, black, and gray, was erected in 2005. It commemorates 77 activists from the Camdeboo region who resisted institutionalized segregation and fought for equality in South Africa. It also serves as an example of the evolving multicultural representation in post-apartheid South African heritage, celebrating individuals and…

The Andries Pretorius Monument at Graaff-Reinet in honour of Pretorius, Gerrit Maritz and the other Voortrekkers from that area was unveiled on 27 November 1943. The monument was sculpted from granite by Coert Steynberg, is approximately 5 m high and initially stood along the main road to Middelburg . To protect it from vandalism, it…