 In South Africa, a number of Afrikaners and Boers are of partial German ancestry, being the descendants of German immigrants who intermarried with Dutch settlers and adopted Afrikaans as their mother tongue.Professor JA Heese in his book "Die Herkoms van die Afrikaner" ("The Origins of Afrikaners") claims the modern Afrikaners (who total around 3.5 million) have 34.4% German ancestry.Germans also emigrated to South Africa during the 1850s and 1860s, and settled in the Eastern Cape area around Stutterheim, and in Kwazulu-Natal in the Wartburg area, where there is still a large German-speaking community.