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20 maj 2021 · An Afrikaner family from the 1930s. Scientific analyses are unpacking Afrikaners’ genetic origins. The story of human history is one of migrations over the globe and admixture – the exchange of...
5 sty 2024 · How the Cape Colony impacted South African demographics today. Today, around 1.27 million people living in South Africa are Asian South Africans (2.5% of the population), mostly people of Indian descent whose ancestors were brought over as workers by the British and Dutch.
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.
7 lis 2023 · The ‘Afrikaner population,’ a descriptive term often used in genetic studies and broadly considered to be an ‘ethnic group’ (another term that has been employed by geneticists in relation to this group), historically encapsulates white Afrikaans-speakers of Dutch descent with a settler history in South Africa.
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.
SUMMARY. This paper is about the South African people group colloquially called the “Boers”, who are descendants predominantly of the Dutch settlers.
Afrikaans is not only spoken by the White peoples of Dutch, Huguenot and German descent (about 60% of South Africa’s Whites), but also by the majority (about 90%) of the people of mixed descent (Coloureds).
