(die foto's wat ek hier plaas, indien anders aangedui, is nie deur myself geneem nie. dankie aan die fotograwe wie die mooi foto's geneem het - dit is eenvoudig gecopy en paste vannaf google images)
Ek onthou van kleins af hoe die menige forte uit die ou dae altyd 'n belangstelling in my geprikkel het.
Die eerste een wat opkom is natuurlik die Kasteel in Kaapstad:
Ons het die kasteel vele male besoek saam met my ouers en ook tuydens skool uitstappies. Toe ek laas week in Kaapstad was het ek gehoor hoe Afrikaanse toeriste vertel dat die kasteel baie agteruit gegaan het.
Robben Eiland
Robben eiland het menigte versterkings en baie groot kanonne wat opgerig was tydens die 2de wereld oorlog.
Ek was gelukkig om as tiener en deel van 'n Vootrekker kamp 'n naweek hier deur te bring en was een van die ondergrondse bankers tot ons beskikking gestel (3 verdiepings ondertoe)
Kings Blokhuis - duiwelskop
Ook in Kaapstad, een van vele blokhuise, staan hierdie een nog deur die Britte opgerig na 1795.
Fort Beaufort
In 1839, weer deur die Britte, is hierdie Martello toring opgerig in Fort Beaufort.
Pretoria Forte
So het ek vroeer verwys na Klapperkop en so ligtelik na Schanskop.
Daar is eintlik 4 forte wat gebou is deur Republiek van Zuid Afrika, net voor die uitbreek van die 2de Anglo Boere oorlog. 3 gebou deur Duitsers en 1 deur die Franse.
Duitse Forte:
Fort Schanskop:
Fort Wonderboompoort:
Fort Klapperkop:
Die Franse Fort:
Fort Daspoortrand
Nog Blokhuise
wiki: "'n Blokhuis is fort wat vir verdediging gebruik word. Blokhuise kan wissel van eenvoudige geboue van hout en sink tot kasteelagtige bouwerke."
"Die Britse magte het tydens die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog blokhuise in Suid-Afrika gebou; aanvanklik om die spoorlyne te beskerm en later om die Boeremagte vas te keer."
"Generaal De Wet en ander Boereleiers het met gemak deur die blokhuisnetwerk geglip. Die koste van die blokhuise het gewissel van ₤15 tot ₤75 elk"
Sentinel Blokhuis Burgersdorp
Sentinel Blokhuis Laingsburg
Witkop Blokhuis - JHB
'N OORSIG VAN DIE MILITÊRE FORTIFIKASIES
bogenoemde skakel bevat meer inligting oor veral blokhuise in Pretoria na die besetting.
Dankie Voortrekker. Dit is…
Dankie Voortrekker. Dit is baie interessant. Hier in die Baai het ons Fort Frederick. Die Britte het dit meer as 200 jaar gelede gebou, met 'n uitsig oor die hele Algoa Baai, vanwaar hul kon sien of indringers wou inkom by die baai. Dit was een van die eerste "geboue" in Port Elizabeth en die stad het eintlik ontwikkel rondom die fort. Ek dink dit was vernoem na die bevelvoerder van die Britse Vloot.
Fort Frederick - wiki
Wiki: "Overlooking the strategic Algoa bay Fort Frederick was built in 1799 on a natural vantage point. Named after Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, commander-in-chief of the British Army, it was built by troops sent to Algoa Bay to prevent a possible landing of French troops, under Napoleon"
En natuurlik toe ek…
En natuurlik toe ek vanoggend hierdie draad plaas en my oudste sien dit wou hy dadelik weet of ons vandag na die kanonne gaan kyk...
klapperkop vandag:
1880
Hi Anton,
Baie dankie vir die insette oor die Forte.
Om een of ander rede laaik ek sulke ou fotos soos die Pretoria 1880 een.
Wens mens kan presies vasstel waar dit geneem was en 'n toe-en-nou foto daarvan maak.
Het êrens 'n video clip gesien van tonele uit die Tweede Wêreldoorlog waar foto's van daardie tyd elektronies in 'n slideshow verander na die toneel soos dit vandag daar uit sien.
Ek sit so iets oor en oor en kyk.
Dankie weereens.
Fort Mistake
Internet foto van Fort Mistake. Ons het daar verby gery maar het nie foto geneem nie.
Fort at Uncle Charlie's JHB
There are the remains of a Boer fort uptop the koppie near Uncle Charlie's in the South of JHB.
I had my first house built nearby, and used to go up there quite often scrounging round for the rubbish hole that must have been dug nearby.
I reckoned if I could find it, I may have found something interesting.
Although the fort is in ruins, One can still make out the structure (built from the stones lying there) and can even see the gunports, cloesd down on the outside of the wall but much wider on the inside of the wall to give a better arc of fire.
I'm told that that fort was in line of site with the fort at Walkerville, and signalling was done at night by fire and a blanket.
Although I've never actually seen the fort at Walkerville, I have found the odd doppie in the area, and again I was told that the Walkerville fort was set up to monitor the British blockhouse nearby.
Just today I had to go to Meyerton and passed by the Blockhouse, and ironically, all of this came to mind.
Does anybody know anything else about the fort near Southgate / Uncle Charlie's?
Blockhouses
Thanks ItlDodat. I tried a bit of a search but couldn't find anything.
Some more about Blockhouses (from southafrica.net)
"On a road trip through South Africa you’ll often come across what looks like someone’s personal castle, standing in a field, or on the outskirts of a Karoo town, or on a hill overlooking the N1 highway between Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Some have been rather fancifully custom-designed, like the mini-fort that overlooks the Northern Cape village of Prieska, which was built out of semi-precious tiger’s eye stones. Others are simple constructions of sandbags, wood and corrugated iron – and generally riddled with old bullet holes.
At the turn of the 20th Century, however, these little buildings with gunports were part of the massive blockhouse system built by the British forces during the South African War (formerly known as the Anglo-Boer War).
Lord Kitchener, commander in general of the British Army in South Africa, was having a hard time countering Boer guerrilla tactics in the field. The Boer combatants, armed and mounted and moving in small squads, were hard to track and pin down as they swept through the countryside, causing havoc with the much larger – and slower – British contingents."
So Kitchener had approximately 8000 blockhouses built, with barbed-wire fencing between them, spanning more than 5000 kilometres. Most of the blockhouses were erected near essential railway routes to protect vital supply lines. And they proved to be effective in controlling the Boers’ movements.
Fort Klapperkop
Die volgende een, seker net so bekend, maar vir mense in Pretoria, is Fort klapperkop:
Ons maak so een keer per jaar 'n trippie soontoe, want die laaities hou vreeslik van die kanonne en outhede.
WIKI: "This fort was constructed at a total cost of GBP £50,000. It was handed over to the Government on 18 January 1898. It was supplied with a paraffin engine powered generator for electricity, a telephone and telegraphic links. Running water was supplied from a pump station in the Fountains Valley which was shared with the nearby Fort Schanskop."
This locomotive was built in 1897 by Neilson and Co. as works no 5131.
During the Anglo-Boer War it was used by the Imperial Military Railways from 1899 to 1902 for carrying British troops and supplies to Pretoria." (http://steam-locomotives…)
Fort Klapperkop Kanon Afvuur