One of Pretoria’s most famous monuments, the Voortrekker Monument, was inaugurated in 1938 to commemorate the Great Trek – the often treacherous journey that Boer farming families undertook during the 1830s and 1840s from the Cape Colony to escape British control.

The imposing 40m-high granite structure is located on a hill in the 240-hectare Voortrekker Monument and Nature Reserve, also a popular picnic spot. A series of Park Acoustics concerts take place at Fort Schanskop.

The significance of the monument is highly contested. And while there has been ongoing work to reinvent its identity in a contemporary South African landscape - it remains for many a bitter symbol of Afrikaner dominance that created and shored up a system of racial inequality.

As part of its reinvention it has become the site for popular events. 

The Voortrekker Monument also hosts Antique & Collectable Fairs on the following dates - public holidays: 21 March, 16 June, 9 August and 24 September from 09:00-15:00. A Military Fair takes place on May 1 from 09:00-16:00.