In scheduling our visit to Pretoria, we focused on coordinating meetings at both the Voortrekker Monument, devoted to Afrikaner nationalism and Freedom Park, a new public space dedicated to South Africa's struggle against apartheid and for liberty. In the process, it was easy to establish a false or misleading dichotomy, with the Voortrekker Monument coming out the poorer for it, appearing to be a symbol of a racist past from which South Africa is trying to emerge. Our hosts, however, including educational coordinator and historian Arend Posthuma, and guide Petrus Maloka, worked very hard to dissuade us of this notion.