The Winburg Voortrekker monument site is large and the monument itself is huge. It is situated on a former farm which was the birthplace of ex-President Steyn of the Free State, and it was the meeting place of the 1938 Second Trek ox-wagon carts that travelled the country and headed towards Pretoria and the Voortrekker Monument. There are a number of dedicatory plaques with dates including 1938, 1988, 1993. The style of the monument is reminiscent of the Paarl Taal monument and there is the same heavy-handed written explanation of ‘the symbolism’. Intended to push home the message, it leaves nothing to the onlooker’s imagination.
View Winburg Voortrekker gallery here
