Questions we get every day.

It is a real register with real numbers, and it is early. No government has agreed to anything, and we say so on every page. What exists today is this: a growing, verified list of families, their skills and their capital, and a plan for what to do with it. Whether it becomes a town depends on whether a government says yes - and we will publish the answer either way.

Nothing. There is no fee to enrol, there never will be, and we will never ask you for money. If anyone contacts you claiming to be Great Trek and asks for a payment, it is not us.

Then it does not happen, and we will tell you plainly rather than letting it fade out. You will have lost four minutes and nothing else. We would rather say that now than promise you something we cannot control.

No, and it would not work if we tried. A town of several thousand people buys food, fuel, materials and services every day, and almost all of that has to be bought where the town is. We bring trades and professions, but no group this size supplies all of its own - we will use local doctors, lawyers, accountants, banks and contractors, hire local people and local firms, and pay our tax in the host country. There are no walls in the plan, and the school and clinic are built to serve the area they sit in.

South Africans who decided that leaving one family at a time was the worst possible way to do this. The people behind it are named on the principles page, with a real contact address.

No. It is open to every South African family - whatever your background, language or community. We do not ask about race anywhere on this site and we never will. There are no quotas and no screening of that kind.

Your name and email address are encrypted before they reach our database, with the key held outside it. Your family members are stored as ages, occupations and health bands with no names at all. You can delete all of it yourself at any time.

"Trek" is one of the few South African words the whole world already uses. It means a long journey, made on purpose. That is the sense we mean, and it is the only sense we mean.

We are aware of the other one. The nineteenth-century trek was one community moving away from a government it rejected, and it ended with people taking land that other people were already living on. This is the opposite of that in every respect that matters. We are not taking land - we are asking to be invited onto it, to buy it, and to pay to build on it. We are not leaving to be left alone - we are leaving in order to join a country that already exists, under its laws, on its terms.

Great Trek is open to every South African family. Every one. There is no screening by race, language, religion or politics, there are no quotas, and there never will be. If you are South African and you want to go, this is for you.