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Afrikaner cuisine has contributed three unique terms to the South African lexicon, namely boerekos ('farmer/Boer food'), potjiekos ('small pot food') and braaivleis ('grilled meat'; frequently just braai, 'grilled'), although the latter (meaning "grilled meat") has actually expanded to a common South African habit.
The Afrikaner or Africander is an African breed of taurine-indicine cattle in the Sanga group of African cattle. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is derived from the cattle of the Khoikhoi (Hottentot) people which were already present in the area of modern South Africa when the Dutch East India Company established the Cape Colony in 1652.
Words of Afrikaans origin have entered other languages. British English has absorbed Afrikaans words primarily via British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars. Many more words have entered common usage in South African English due to the parallel nature of the English and Afrikaner cultures in South Africa. Afrikaans words have unusual ...
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 3] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
Afrikaner history was also reinterpreted through a Christian-nationalistic ideology. Paul Kruger , president of the Transvaal from 1883 to 1902 and a founding member of the Gereformeerde Kerke van Zuid-Afrika or "Dopper Church", referred to a "sacred history" with the volk as the chosen people, where the Great Trek of the 1830s was seen as the ...
The supporters of the Boer designation view the term Afrikaner as an artificial political label which usurped their history and culture, turning Boer achievements into Afrikaner achievements. They feel that the Western-Cape based Afrikaners – whose ancestors did not trek eastwards or northwards – took advantage of the republican Boers ...
Most surnames typically associated with Afrikaner families are of Dutch, French and German origin, with a dose of Scandinavian, Scottish and English thrown in. Hendrik Verwoerd, for example, was not born in Africa, nor were either of his parents Afrikaners. Nonetheless, he identified with Afrikaners and probably considered himself to be one.
The Afrikaner sheep (also known as Cape fat tail) is a breed of fat tailed, ... History and Origin of the Ronderib and Namaqua Afrikaner Sheep H. Epstein, 1960