This monument is situated alongside Paardekraal Road in Krugersdorp (Mogale City). When I first visited in 2007 I found that access was not easy due to a lack of any sort of parking or driveway onto the ground. Also, the context of the monument was not evident, and the inscriptions on the monument appeared to be in Dutch and are not easily readable.
The monument in 2012.
One of the Dutch inscriptions on the monument
Unfortunately the link pointing to the history of the monument and the events surrounding it has closed down, however the FAK has a page on the monument and an Afrikaans version of the history of the monument on Wikepedia is also available.
Unfortunately on the day when I photographed the monument it was one of those dark and gloomy West Rand type days so the photographs were not the best available. It was always my intention to return to here, but I just never managed until 2012.
I returned to the site in September 2012 to find it had been completely fenced with an electric fence and there was no way to get close to the monument at all. I found the access gate after walking almost all the way around the site, but there was just no real way to get in, so I shot the first pic on this blog over the fence. My intention had been to get close ups of the Dutch panels on the monument, but it seems as if that will never happen now.
The monument was designed by Sytze Wierda who was the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek State Architect, and was built by WY Vietch. It was unveiled by President Paul Kruger on 16 December 1891.
© DRW 2007 – 2018. Edited 07/09/2012. Moved to blog 27/01/2014, cleared dead link and replaced it with another, added 2 more images 14/08/2016