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Voortrekker Woman and Children, Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa | Pretoria - Gauteng, South Africa (IMG_0492.jpg)

Voortrekker Woman and Children, Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

At the foot of the Monument stands Anton van Wouw's bronze sculpture of a Voortrekker woman and her two children, paying homage to the strength and courage of the Voortrekker women. On both sides of this sculpture black wildebeest are chiselled into the walls of the Monument. The wildebeest symbolically depicts the dangers of Africa and their symbolic flight implies that the woman, carrier of Western civilization, is triumphant.
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