Causes of the Boers Great Trek

 The Great trek was massive movement or exodus of the Boers from the Cape colony into the interior of South Africa.

The Great trek was a large-scale migration of the Boers from the Cape colony and well organized under disciplined leadership.

The following were the causes of great boer trek

The Boers wanted to get freedom and independence from British rule since they had been under the British control right from 1795 when the British took over Cape colony from the Dutch administration.

The presence of large and unoccupied pieces of land in the interior of South Africa for settlement and commercial farming encouraged the Boers to migrate into the interior of South Africa.

The Boers also moved in search for fertile soils in the interior of South Africa that could promote agricultural production.

The rebellious nature of the Boers who were also defiant especially to the British legal reforms thus they had moved away in order to be free from the British rule.

The Hottentots code of 1809 hurt the Boers because it gave the Khoi-Khoi back their land, which the Boers had acquired and this led to the Great trek.

The Dutch Reformed Church had limited influence in South Africa and this annoyed the Boers forcing them to move into the interior.

The Boers rejected the freedom of Worship granted by the British to the Africans through the British religious groups reforms made at the Cape.

The Boers were also annoyed that freedom of press granted to the Africans forcing them to migrate into the interior of South Africa.

The Boers migrated into the interior of South Africa because missionaries were marrying Africans something that annoyed them and this led to the great trek.

The Boers moved due to the missionary act of preaching liberty, equality and fraternity yet the Boers supported discrimination of the non-whites.

The racial segregation of the Boers against the Africans as they believed that they were God chosen people and therefore could not mix with other races especially the non-whites hence caused the Great trek.

The Boers hated replacement of the Dutch Rix dollar by the English Currency (English silver) as currency at the Cape and they therefore decided to move into the interior of South Africa.

The Boers also moved due to the Boers racial prejudice i.e. the desire by the Dutch to promote their culture and supremacy in the interior of South Africa.

The Boers also hated the missionaries for providing education to the Africans yet they had denied them for a long time and this led to the Great trek.

The 1828 50thordinance, which restored civil rights of the non-whites, alarmed the Boers because it abolished pass laws and granted equality to all races.

The nomadic way of life of the Boers that forced them to move in search for water and pasture for their livestock since the Boers were basically pastoralists.

The imposition of English language by the British that replaced the Dutch language as the official language annoyed the Boers hence the Great trek by the Boers into the interior of South Africa.

The population increase at the Cape following the influx of the British settlers at the Cape created pressure on services led to great trek.

The British policy of Anglicization i.e. the idea of turning the Cape colony into British Cape regarded as an inconvenience to the Boers hence Great trek.

The British judicial reforms of replacing the Old Dutch Roman criminal law by the British legal system forced the Boers to migrate into the interior of South Africa running away from the British legal system at the Cape.

The long-term hatred between the British and Boers at the Cape forced the Boers move into the interior of South Africa led to the Great trek.

The spirit of adventure among the Boers who wanted discovers new areas into the interior of South Africa led to the massive migration by the Boers.

The good reports from the Boers’ scouts who had moved into the interior South Africa, also excited the remaining Boers thus led to the Great trek.

The reduction of the Dutch official salaries by the British which angered the Boers forcing them to try their luck elsewhere.

The introduction of the Black Circuit courts, which granted rights to the Africans to complain against their cruel masters angered the Boers hence the Great trek.

The Slachters’ Nek incident of 1815 i.e. the hanging of the rebellious Boers at the Cape greatly annoyed the Boers forcing them to leave the Cape colony.

The loss of cheap labor by the Boers as the result of emancipation of the slaves through the 50th ordinance forced the Boers to move into the interior of South Africa away from the British influence.

The emancipation of slaves by Britain in 1833 applied to all parts of the British Empire South Africa inclusive forced the disgruntled Boers to move into the interior of South Africa.

The British failure to compensate the Boers after the liberation of slaves and even then some hated less compensation given was £1.25 million for slaves valued at £3million and forced the Boers to move into the interior of South Africa.

The four unfounded rumours circulating in the Cape colony intensified the urge for the Boers to move away e.g. that the Boers’ land were to be given to the Khoi-Khoi and that the Boers were to intermarry with the Africans.

The rumours that there was to be forced military conscription on the Boers by the British, this made the Boers to migrate into the interior of South Africa to avoid it.

The nullification and cancellation of the Boers annexation of the province of Queen Adelaide and Natal, by the British annoyed the Boers hence their movement into the interior of South Africa.

The British secretary of State Lord Glenelg cancelled Governor Benjamin Durban’s proposal of territorial adjustments for the fear of increased administrative and financial responsibilities for the government.

The new British reform which required the mapping and fencing and possession of a title deed for one to have land which the Boers did not support.

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