graaff-reinet attractions
 
Graaff Reinet National Monuments Attractions

Dedicated to Boer soldiers "in memory of the fallen in the struggle for Freedom and Justice".

The important role played by the Jewish "smous" in the sparsely populated interior of the Cape Colony is recognised in a simple monument erected alongside College Road.

The scale model of the Paardekraal monument, erected south of the bridge over the Sundays River.

In 1988 South Africa celebrated the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the French Huguenots in the country.

The Drostdy at Graaff-Reinet was established in response to petitions from the Boers of the region.

On 7 November 1923 the great bronze fiure of the "victory Peace Angel", mounted on a high pedestal, was unveiled by H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught

A stone pyramid erected on Magazine Hill commemorates the union of the four provinces in 1910.

This monument in memory of the Voortrekker leader was erected in 1943.
About 2 km from the town adjacent to the road to Middelburg, the route to the north and into the interior, which the Voortrekker followed.

 

During the Anglo-Boer War Gideon Scheepers formed his own commando, which operated in the Cape Midlands. He was captured by the British troops and charges of alleged war crimes were laid against him. At the court hearings in Graaff-Reinet he was found guilty and sentenced to death, by a firing squad.

 
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