A father’s last act of love. A boy begging to die. A tragedy that played itself out on a mountain.
In the winter of 1843 the De Beer family arrived on the farm, Welkom, owned by Mr Adrian de Beer, where he kindly allowed them to stop over. They were a very poor family, stragglers of the Great Trek who had left the Eastern Cape on their way to Natal looking for a new life. They hoped to rest their oxen and carry out repairs and maintenance to their wagon before moving on to the Eastern Transvaal.
No, It was NOT named after Lord Horatio Nelson!