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The Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa. This massive granite structure is prominently located on a hilltop, and was raised to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854.
It was described, by the English playwright, novelist and screen-writer Keith Waterhouse, as "surely the most vulgar memorial ever constructed by man", in his memoir Streets Ahead (Hodder and Stoughton, 1995).
On 8 July 2011 the Voortrekker Monument, designed by the architect Gerard Moerdijk, was declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Heritage Resource Agency.
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