[DOC] [TLE] Boer - Wikipedia [PAR] Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for "farmer". As used in South Africa, it was 
used to ... They left the Cape primarily to escape British rule and get away from 
the ... Its policies were not directed at development of the colony, but to using it to 
..... and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s) in the north of South... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of the Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 spans the period of the history 
of the Cape ... After war broke out again, a British force was sent once more to the 
Cape. ... with British rule as they had been with that of the Dutch East India 
Company, though their ... The Great Trek, as it is called, lasted from 1836 to 1840. [DOC] [TLE] History of South Africa - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of South Africa starts more than 100,000 years ago, when the first 
humans inhabited ... The country became a self-governing nation state within the 
British Empire in 1934 following enactment of the ..... The Cape Colony was 
unusual in southern Africa in that its laws prohibited any discrimination on the 
basis of... [DOC] [TLE] Great Trek 1835-1846 | South African History Online [PAR] Apr 21, 2016 ... The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into ... they could 
establish their own homeland, independent of British rule. ... pack their worldly 
possessions in ox-wagons and leave the colony forever. ... The Voortrekkers who 
left from the eastern Cape set off in several groups, each under... [DOC] [TLE] Country Guide: SOUTH AFRICA (washingtonpost.com) [PAR] People of African descent fall into several groups, based on their first language. 
... a major hydroelectric and irrigation scheme, began in 1963 in central South 
Africa ... from E central Africa had settled the N region of present-day South Africa
. ... of British rule as well as to obtain new land, about 12,000 Boers left the Cape
... [DOC] [TLE] History of South Africa - Key Figures in South Africa's history - From ... [PAR] He was the 1st Commander of the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie) from 1652 until 
1662. ... (mostly descended from the same small group of seventeenth-century 
Dutch, ... the 1830s marched into the interior of South Africa on the Great Trek, 
skirting the ... or trekkers, hoped to establish their own communities, free of British 
rule. [DOC] [TLE] Timeline of Events in South Africa - West Chester University's [PAR] 1830s-1840s: "Great Trek" of Dutch Boer north of the Orange River to Transvaal 
and Orange Free State ... 1906: Black Africans protested wage cuts, so the 
government began to ... 1908: anti-British party won first elections in Cape 
Colony. ... the dedication of a monument to the Great Trek to gain influence 
among Boers. [DOC] [TLE] History | South African Government [PAR] As splinter groups conquered and absorbed communities in their path, the ... to 
the north, in the movement that became known as the Great Trek, in the mid-
1830s. ... Numbers of Africans within the Cape Colony had sufficient formal 
education or ... Kruger's government and establish British rule throughout the 
subcontinent. [DOC] [TLE] Module Twenty Nine, Activity Two | Exploring Africa [PAR] The Zulu incorporated many groups of people into their kingdom with violence. ... 
Europeans Move In: Establishing British colonies and the Great Trek: ... In the 
1830s, large groups of Dutch farmers began to leave the British Cape colony ..... 
or that Africans should work with whites when gaining freedom in an African 
country... [DOC] [TLE] Imperialism [PAR] In 1814, the Cape Colony passed from the Dutch to the British. ... To escape 
British rule, they loaded their goods into wagons and started north. Several... [DOC] [TLE] South Africa, - UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 [PAR] All political groups left of the United Party have been increasingly ... First, the 
territories north of the Limpopo must come under majority rule. ... my wife

Question: In the 1830s this group began its "Great Trek" north from Cape Colony to gain freedom from British rule
Answer: the Boers