The Vryburg Second Trek memorial site Is on the main road to Taung, leading out of the town. It has some of the features of a Gedenktuin, such as a metal fenced perimeter and a semi-formal entrance with brick pillars holding the gates, with these enclosing a separated space demarcated from the outside secular world. There are two large monuments, both with protective ironwork. One is in the shape of an ox-wagon with railings mimicking wagon-sails. A plaque inside commemorates Manie Maritz, executed following a failed Boer Rebellion against the Botha and Smuts-led post-Union government in 1914/15. The other commemorates the 1938 Second Trek. It has metal railings, included within these are ox-wagon wheel shapes, and inside there are depictions of ox-wagon carts. Set into the stonework are names and 1938 dates of people who contributed to the funds to build the monument.
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