Johanna van der Merwe
Deceased Person
1825 – 1888
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Who was Johanna van der Merwe?
Johanna Cornelia van der Merwe was a Voortrekker heroine who survived the Weenen massacre, an impi attack on her trekking party on 17 February 1838, despite suffering more than twenty assegai wounds.
She later married Hendrik Fredercik Delport with whom she had seven sons. She died aged 62 and was buried in Rouxville.
An ox-wagon in the historic 1938 Great Trek Centenary commemoration trek as well as a South African Navy submarine were named in her honour.
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