Lang Hans van Rensburg

Johannes Jacobus (Lang Hans) Janse van Rensburg (12 August 1779 – July 1836) was a leader of one of the early Voortrekker groups.

His entire group of 51 people was massacred by an 'impi' of Manukosi near Inhambane.

Only his two children were spared, as a result of an intervention by another Zulu warrior.

[1] Included in the party was Nicholaas Balthasar Prinsloo, who was a Slagtersnek rebel, his wife, Petronella Maria Krugel/Kruger and their family.

[2][3] Battles

A map charting the routes of the largest trekking parties during the first wave of the Great Trek (1835-1840) along with key battles and events.
Louis Tregardt 's route (1833 to 1838)
Survivors of Tregardt's trek evacuated by sea, 1839
Van Rensburg' s route, after it separated from Tregardt's