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In South Africa, an Afrikaner minority party, the National Party, came to power in 1948 and enacted a series of segregationist laws favouring White people known as apartheid, meaning "separateness".
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.
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 Hollfelder et al., 2020; Greeff & Schlebusch, 2021).
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.
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.
27 cze 2024 · The enduring legacy of Dutch presence in South Africa is evident in various aspects of South African society, including surnames, language, and cultural influences. Many South African names bear Dutch references, a testament to the prominence of Dutch settlers and their lasting impact.
