On a hillside just outside central Pretoria is an area which features a number of large memorial sites, including the Voortrekker monument and more recently the area known as Freedom Park with its museum. Schanskop includes a mixture of nationalist memorials. The main monuments are to people who were ‘bitter-enders’ and would not accept the peace treaty at the end of the South African War and left for German East Africa at a number of points but mainly in 1904. One was originally dedicated in the 1930s but restored in 2004 into its present brick form. There are also individual plaques commemorating individuals named as trekkers. In addition, there is a 1968-dated large boulder with a dressed face commemorating a nearby romanticised statute of much mythologised Boer scout Gideon Scheepers. The rest of the site has a few remaining British military buildings.
View Schanskop, Pretoria gallery here
