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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...
Boer, (Dutch: “husbandman,” or “farmer”), 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.
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.
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.
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 Hollfelder et al., 2020; Greeff & Schlebusch, 2021).
EDITORIAL. Understanding the genetic diversity of South Africa’s peoples. The diverse nature of the peoples living in South Africa (SA) and their history has offered unique opportunities over the years to its researchers, particularly those working in the field of human and medical genetics.
One central theme in Dutch publications about South Africa at the end of the nineteenth century was the dynamic relation between Dutch as it was written and spoken in the Netherlands and the development of Afrikaans.
