BACK 4D FUTURE For: The Man On The White Horse

Monday, April 24, 2017

From August 1848, the growing threat posed by the Transvaal Boers to the still independent Batswana merafe was increased with the arrival of arguably the most gifted of all the Voortrekker leaders, Andries Pretorius.

Already a legend among his own people, Pretorius would appear in Setswana praise poems from the era as a mighty adversary who rode on a white horse (“mogale wa pitse e tshweu”).

A decade earlier, Pretorius had so appeared in Natal as the one who rescued the Boers from annihilation at the hands of Nkosi Dingane’s Amazulu.

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