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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 239, 6 September 1928, Page 7

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ANGOLA BOERS TREKKING. (Australian Press Association —United Service). CAPETOWN, Sept. 4. Six heavily-loaded lorries with, the first five families of Boers from Angola have arrived ’ at the railhead in South-West Africa on their way to Gobabis. Before leaving Angola the Boers signed a declaration that they wore trekking of their own free will, and were not forced to leave. Tho Boers trekked originally into Angola to avoid living under the Union Jade, but did not find tho conditions congenial under the Portuguese flag, and are being repatriated. Gobabis is on the eastern side of South-West Africa, formerly German, but now attached to tho Union. The Union has made arrangements for motor transport over a distance of 700 miles from tho Kuneno River. The trekkers regard it as a picnic. At Otavi they passed the ruins of the church and houses which their fathers built fifty years ago on the northward trek, saw herds of elephants, giraffes, and buck, and heard lions roaring, but there was no untoward incident. Four convoys are continually operating until the whole two thousand have been transported. Toward the end of the exile the Portuguese in Angola were more reasonable returning the settlers’ rifles, and facilitated the trek.