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".

Oct 18, 2020 · The Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group who are descended from 17th century Dutch, German, and French settlers to South Africa. The Afrikaners slowly developed their own language and culture when they came into contact with Africans and Asians.

Mar 24, 2011 · The 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.

May 20, 2021 · Scientific analyses are unpacking Afrikaners’ genetic origins. The story of human history is one of migrations over the globe and admixture – the exchange of DNA – between populations. Two of...

The Afrikaners people are a unique ethnic group in South Africa who trace their roots to European settlers who arrived in South Africa in the seventeenth century. Over time, this community developed their own language, national identity, history and religion.

Boers or Afrikaners are the descendants of European immigrants (Dutch Calvinists, French Huguenots, German and Belgian Protestants) that had been settling in the South‑African region of today’s Cape provinces, which was controlled by the …

Afrikaner, a South African of European descent whose native language is Afrikaans. They are descendants of the Boers. See

Afrikaners are white South Africans who speak Afrikaans as mother tongue and follow the Afrikaans culture. Most of them have Dutch, German, or French Huguenot, ancestors. They are also called Boer s, Voortrekkers and Burgers, although under slightly different contexts.

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". These laws allowed for the systematic persecution of opposition leaders and attempted to enforce general white supremacy by classifying all South ...

Jun 8, 2018 · Over the next 300 years, the Afrikaners battled indigenous African peoples, established independent republics in the interior, and fought the British in two wars known as the Anglo-Boer Wars (the second is now known as the South African War).