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Aka: Derdepoort Gedenknaald Erected: 1920 Sculptor: Anton van Wouw Location: Fatima Bhayat St (Kerk St), Rustenburg. Image source: NG Moedergemeente Rustenburg on FB. Photo c.1969.¹ The memorial at the entrance of the NG Kerk Rustenburg was erected a number of years after the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War and commemorates the names of those killed and murdered at Derdepoort. In the neighbourhood of Mochudi the Marico River is the boundary between the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the Transvaal. On the British side of the river was a native town, Sekwane, and over against it, on the other side, was a Boer laager at a place called Derdepoort.² Derdepoort Massacre The Derdepoort attack took place on 25 November 1899, early in the Second Anglo-Boer War (also known as the South African War). It occurred at a location on the border of the ZAR with the British Bechuanaland Protectorate (in present-day North West Province, near the Botswana border, east of Gaborone). A small group of Bo...

Full name:  Coert Lourens Steynberg Lifespan:  1905 Hennopsrivier - 1982 Pretoria Occupation:  Sculptor, medallist. Coert Steynberg. Unidentified photographer. Timeline Biography Coert Steynberg was a prominent South African sculptor and medallist. He worked in a variety of materials, including granite, marble, sandstone, glass, bronze, copper, and wood, and created both large-scale public monuments and smaller, more intimate private works. Early Life and Education Steynberg in Venice, third from left. Unidentified photographer. Born in Hennops River (near Pretoria) in the Transvaal Colony. At the age of four, his family moved to Bethal (Mpumalanga) where he matriculated. Steynberg studied art at Rhodes University in South Africa before advancing to the Royal College of Art in London, where he studied sculpture under Gilbert Ledward . Here he received the August Spencer trophy for best sculpture student. Steynberg spent six years abroad, during which time he toured Europe...