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The ABO Herdenkingstog (ABO Commemorative March) monument in Luckhoff, Free State, commemorates the 1938 symbolic ox-wagon trek that reenacted the Great Trek of the 1830s. This event was organized by the Afrikaner Broederbond (ABO) and other cultural organizations to mark the centenary of the Battle of Blood River (1838) and to foster Afrikaner nationalism. The trek involved ox-wagons traveling from Cape Town to Pretoria, with ceremonies and monuments erected along the route, including at Luckhoff. The monument likely serves as a local marker of this nationalistic movement, which culminated in the laying of the foundation stone for the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria in 1938. Luckhoff, a small town in the Free State, was established in 1892 and named after a Dutch Reformed Church minister. The 1938 trek was a key event in the rise of Afrikaner identity and political mobilization leading up to the 1948 elections.
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