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Piet Retief Monument
Summer Strand, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape

Gerard Leendert Pieter MOERDYK: Architect

Date:1938
Type:Monument
Style:Afrikaner Nationalist
Status:Extant
Street:Marine Drive

 


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Coordinates:
33°59.175' S 25°40.136' E

First erected at Coega at the junctions of the old roads to Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth, re-erected in 1975 at present location, once part of Retief's farm Strandfontein.


References:

van Tonder, JJ. 1977. Fotobeeld van 300 Monumente, Standbeelde en Gedenktekens langs die pad van Suid-Afrika. Krugersdorp: JJ van Tonder. pg 156