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Bookmark or Share- Afrikaner - South African History OnlineThe modern Afrikaner is descended mainly from Western Europeans who settled on the southern tip of Africa during the middle of the 17th century. Portuguese mariners discovered the sea passage to the East round Cape Point in 1488 and in the course of their visits, came into contact with the Khoi.
- Afrikaners - WikipediaThe term "Afrikaner" currently denotes the politically, culturally, and socially dominant and majority group [22] [need quotation to verify] among white South Africans, or the Afrikaans-speaking population of Dutch origin.
- Boer | History, Culture & Traditions | BritannicaBoer, (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. In 1652 the Dutch East India Company charged Jan van Riebeeck with establishing a shipping station on the Cape of Good Hope.
- Afrikaners - WikiwandThe term "Afrikaner" currently denotes the politically, culturally, and socially dominant and majority group [22] [need quotation to verify] among white South Africans, or the Afrikaans-speaking population of Dutch origin.
- Afrikaners - Encyclopedia.comAfrikaner identity was formed through a gradual indigenization that dissolved connections with the former motherland: hence the choice to use terms for themselves and their language that signaled that their destiny as individuals and a nation was rooted in Africa.
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