Voortrekker Celebrations in South Africa -- The Voortrekker monument, near Pretoria. 200,000 people - mostly Afrikaners - are expected to attend the great Voortrekker celebrations taking place at the Voortrekker Monument, three miles outside Pretoria. The huge Monument was erected at a cost of ?500,000 to commemorate the Voortrekkers who fled from British rule in the Cape in 1835. It is over 130 feet in height. December 12, 1949. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited).