Laerskool Wonderboom-Suid
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LAERSKOOL WONDERBOOM-SUID
Country: South Africa
Campus/location : Wonderboom South, Pretoria, Gauteng
Official blazon
- (af)
Wapen: In goud, die Wonderboom op 'n grond, alles van natuurlike kleur, en in die skildhoof in groen 'n Voortrekkerossewa van natuurlike kleur.
Wapenspreuk: GEANKER IN EIE BODEM
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Arms: Or, the "Wonderboom" on an island, all proper and on a chief Vert a Voortrekker oxwagon proper.
Motto: GEANKER IN EIE BODEM
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on October 29, 1965.
The arms show a canting Wonderboom ('miracle tree') and in chief a wagon used in the Grote Trek of the 19th century when the area was settled.
The Wonderboom is a unique 1000 year old fig tree found North of the Magaliesberg Mountains in Pretoria. The tree, now a national monument, is unusually large, standing some 25 metres high and having a 5,5 metre diameter main trunk. It’s growth pattern is also unusual: as its branches grew longer, they drooped towards the ground and eventually took root and formed a circle of new trunks or daughter trees around the original tree. There are now a total of 13 trunks and the colossal tree covers an area with a diameter of 55 metres!
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