The Boers are the descendants of the first Dutch settlers in South Africa. They call themselves “Africa’s only white tribe .”. Apartheid was the codification 50 years ago of their determination to treat black people as inferior and separate.

The Boers eventually moved beyond the Orange and Vaal rivers and established the Orange Free State and the South African Republic. The British recognised the independence of the South African Republic in 1852 and the Orange Free State in 1854. The Boer republics were sparsely populated and most farming communities lived in isolation, linked to ...

Unlike the Boers, the contact most Cape Dutch had with black Africans were predominantly peaceful, and their racial attitudes were more paternal than outright hostile. Meanwhile, the VOC underwent a period of commercial decline beginning in the late eighteenth century which ultimately resulted in its bankruptcy.

The only indigenous peoples to come in contact with the Boer-Afrikaner community were nomadic Bushmen (San) & Hottentot (Khoikhoi) tribes, who are genetically classified as “Capoid”, a light-Brown “pure” race. These tribes generally do not consider themselves as being “Black”.

Many Boers left the region after the Boer Wars, while others remained in South Africa, People who self-identify as "Boer" are usually abstracting themselves from the larger Afrikaner community in Africa, the group of people who speak the language known as Afrikaans. Mary McMahon

The Boers are the descendants of the first Dutch settlers in South Africa. They call themselves “Africa’s only white tribe.” Apartheid was the codification 50 years ago of their determination to treat black people as inferior and separate.

The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought frequent range wars, and toward the government of the Cape, which was attempting to control Boer movements and commerce. Is Afrikaans derived from Dutch? Afrikaans is a creole language that evolved during the 19th century under colonialism in southern Africa.

The British government paid owners for their slaves, but the Boers complained the payments were too small. Large numbers of people from Great Britain settled in South Africa after gold and diamonds were discovered. The resulting tensions led to the three-party “Boer Wars" among the British, the Boers, and the Bantus. that lasted from 1899 to ...