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Boers, a nationality in South Africa. In the main, they are descendants of 17th-century Dutch settlers; their origins can also be traced to French and German colonists. They live primarily in provinces of the Republic of South Africa—Transvaal, the Cape, and the Orange Free State—and also in Namibia and Southern Rhodesia. They total about 2.5 million (1965); their language is Afrikaans.

Most Afrikaners belong to the Dutch Reformed Church. They reside on individual farms and engage mainly in farming and raising livestock. Since the early 20th century a process of material and social stratification has intensified among the Afrikaners. Large farmers have plantations with dozens and hundreds of African laborers. Strict patriarchal Puritan traditions have been maintained in the families of the farmers. An Afrikaner industrial and commercial bourgeoisie has been forming in the cities. The reactionary Nationalist Party, which holds power in the Republic of South Africa at the present time, finds its chief support in the Afrikaner bourgeoisie of the city and countryside. It carries out a policy of racial discrimination and segregation with respect to Africans, Indians, and those of mixed ancestry.


Narody Afriki. Moscow, 1954.
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While the exploitation took a turn for the worse in 1948, this nastiness must be understood in the light of the National Party's sense of grievance about the racist oppression visited by the British on white Afrikaners before Union in 1909, including the thousands of deaths from illness and hunger in the world's first concentration camps, established by the occupying British forces during the Anglo-Boer War.
Afrikaners lived in the two Boer republics as well as in the two British colonies, and the war was one between two settler peoples for possession of a land already inhabited by many different indigenous peoples.
8) Het blijkt dat de Nederlandse literatuur die de Boekencommissie geschikt achtte voor de nog onbedorven Afrikaners vooral bestond uit historische romans, Biedermeierpoezie, geschiedverhalen en godsdienstige tractaten.
The majority of reviewers chose to highlight the strong educational component of the Keurboslaan books and the way in which the books provided answers to some of the problems experienced in the education system Afrikaners participated in at the time.
I timed the trip to coincide with the centenary of the war's outbreak so I could watch how a new, post-apartheid South Africa would remember an event that until recently had been a key building block in Afrikaner identity and the history of minority rule.
The conservative side in the white Afrikaner community responded negatively to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Prof.
5) Although the majority of non-white people in the Cape provinces speak Afrikaans as their first language, the term Afrikaners is most commonly used to connote white.
But AmaBhulu, the book's title and the African tribal name of the European-descent Afrikaners, is much more than just another history book about some faraway place and people.
In 'n wereld waar Afrikaner-voorbeelde van verset teen apartheid min en onbekend was, het Brink soos Breyten Breytenbach 'n wereld oopgeskryf wat dit vir ons, die geslag van apartheid, moontlik gemaak het om genuanseerder met ons leefwereld om te gaan: nie alle Afrikaners was verdrukkers nie, nie alle Afrikaners het apartheid gesteun nie, nie alle Afrikaners het hulle rug op swart mense gedraai nie.
But often ignored are other methodologies that affirmed and uplifted the minority Afrikaner cultural universe and language, as a driving force of success.
Conservative Afrikaners frequently deride Du Preez, along with Slabbert et al, as having been duped by the ANC on the Dakar Safari.
More than 50,000 South Africans -- Afrikaners almost to a man, with hardly a black face in sight -- were there to see their country play mine.