Voortrekker

The voortrekkers (Afrikaans: pioneers, literally "those who advance first") were white farmers (Afrikaners), known as Boers, who in the 1830s and 1840s emigrated in a series of movements of different contingents, led by different leaders in a process known as the Great Trek (in Afrikaans Groot Trek, "Great Migration") from the Cape Colony, controlled by the English to territories previously populated by blacks (and then depopulated due to the difaqane originated by the Zulu king Shaka) that were north of the Orange River in what is today It's South Africa.