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In contemporary South Africa, Boer and Afrikaner have often been used interchangeably. [dubious – discuss] Afrikaner directly translated means African, and thus refers to all Afrikaans-speaking people in Africa who have their origins in the Cape Colony founded by Jan Van Riebeeck. Boer is a specific group within the larger Afrikaans-speaking ...
South African government data indicated between 58 and 74 murders on farms annually in the period 2015–2017; out of an annual murder count of 20,000 total murders in South Africa; [25] [26] these figures are broadly consistent with figures collected by the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU), a farmers' union.
Boer republics and Griqua states in Southern Africa, 19th century. The Boer republics ... Public farmers and the government ... a subgroup of South Africa's ...
The national rugby team, the Springboks, did not compete in the first two rugby world cups in 1987 and 1991 because of anti-apartheid sporting boycotts of South Africa, but later on the Springboks won the 1995, 2007, 2019 and 2023 Rugby World Cups. Boeresport ('farmer/Boer sport') also
Ensure the safety of South African Farmers. Ongoing dialogue with the government over issues within the agricultural sector. Protect South African farmers' right to private property to exercise their calling as farmers. Ensure the food security of South Africa. Protection of the Boer/Afrikaner’s right to freedom of association.
It is an important part of South African, Zimbabwean, Zambian, Botswanan, and Namibian cuisine, and is popular across Southern Africa. The name is derived from the Afrikaans words boer (literally, a farmer) and wors ('sausage'). [1] According to South African government regulation, boerewors must contain at least 90 percent meat or fat from ...
The Trekboers were seminomadic pastoralists, subsistence farmers who began trekking both northwards and eastwards into the interior to find better pastures/farmlands for their livestock to graze, as well as to escape the autocratic rule of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC), which administered the Cape.
Under the leadership of John MacBride, the brigade was strengthened by volunteers traveling from Ireland via Delagoa Bay into South Africa. [8] The uitlander problem and the associated tensions between the South African Republic and Britain led to the Jameson Raid of 1895–96 and ultimately the Second Boer War of 1899–1902. [9]