Just off a main road near Ventersburg, this meeting place at Sand River in the Free State was where the treaty or convention was signed in 1852 in which Britain accorded independence to the South African Republic aka Transvaal. The rough-hewn stone memorial was erected by the Historical Monuments Commission, with an undated plaque to this effect. The convention was signed among others by the then Commandant-General Andries Pretorius, whose son Martinus subsequently became the Transvaal’s first President.
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