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20 maj 2021 · Our research had six main findings. First, it confirmed the timing of admixture in the Cape. Second, it showed limited genetic contribution from southern Bantu-speakers, African farmers that...
7 lis 2023 · The genetic study provides scientific backing for incidences of racial mixture within the Afrikaner ‘population’—defined in this study as Afrikaans-speaking, white South Africans (see Greeff & Schlebusch, 2021; Hollfelder et al., 2020).
1 gru 2021 · Through references to blood and genealogical descent (sometimes confirmed via DNA testing), it becomes possible to establish oneself as truly South African in a new frame of reference—‘of the soil’—without unsettling the underlying sense of Whiteness as a profound racial essence.
One of the most noto-rious of these was by the explorer Daniël Veth, who in 1884 went to Umpata in South-West Africa to examine the possibility of founding a Dutch colony there. The expedition was a complete failure and Veth died of fever.
The Dutch had occupied the Cape Town area of South Africa as early as 1652 in order to provide a victualling station for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC – the Dutch United East India Company) to restock their ships travelling between the Netherlands and their interests in South East Asia.
27 cze 2024 · The term “Boer” refers to a South African of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent, especially one of the early settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Today, descendants of the Boers are commonly referred to as Afrikaners.
10 mar 2004 · Some mutations that occur among the Dutch are shared with other European populations and others have been transmitted by Dutch émigrés to their descendents in North America and South Africa.
