Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.			Karel Landman Monument De Kol-rant Farm, Alexandria district, Eastern Cape Gerard Leendert Pieter MOERDYK: Architect LUPINI BROTHERS : Contractor Coert STEYNBERG: Artist

Date: 1938 Client: Trust? Type: Monument Style: Afrikaner Nationalist Status: Extant Street: 40 km right off Alexandria- Port Elizabeth Road   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°34'42.89" S 26°09'42.81" E Alt: 409m

GDJ Aucamp initiated the idea of a local monument to commemorate the centenary of the trek from the Eastern Cape by the Voortrekker party under leadership of Karel Landman, the largest trek party from the ward of Olifantshoek in Uitenhage. JA Scheepers, donated the land from the farm Kol-rant. Gerard MOERDIJK was approached for the design which was approved in May of 1939, although the granite plinth had been inaugurated on 16 December 1938. The concrete and terrazzo monument was manufactured by LUPINI BROTHERS in Johannesburg at a cost of £470 (R940 then). The monument was unveiled on 16 December 1939 by WA Landman, descendent of Karel Landman. The bas relief oxwagon was done by Coert Steynberg. See also Karel Landman's House. Writings about this entry Swart, Marius J. 1989. Afrikanerbakens. Johannesburg: Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge. pg 66, 67 ill