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Pieter Retief
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Pieter Retief

  • ZA HPRA A1620
  • Fonds
  • 1838

Replica of the Treaty between Pieter Retief and Dingaan, by which Dingaan ceded substantial land to Retief, signed on the 4 February 1838.

Underneath the text of the Treaty is a certificate in Dutch, to the effect that the Treaty was found on the 21 December 1838 in a leather satchel near the bones of Retief, and it is signed by E. Potgieter. The text of the Treaty has been translated into English, and both, the Treaty as well as the certificate have been pasted on a board. Research has uncovered that a number of such replicas of the Treaty have been made.