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Boer is a specific group within the larger Afrikaans-speaking population. [ 31 ] [ verification needed ] During apartheid, Boer was used by opponents of apartheid in various contexts, referring to institutional structures such as the National Party , or to specific groups of people, such as members of the Police Force (colloquially known as ...
The United States of America was involved in the war in a number of ways, albeit they did not participate in the war itself. Diplomatic relations between Britain and the United States were influenced by the Boer War, and public opinion of the Boer War in the United States significantly affected American politics. [1]
The Boer republics (sometimes also referred to as Boer states) were independent, self-governing republics formed (especially in the last half of the 19th century) by Dutch-speaking inhabitants of the Cape Colony and their descendants.
South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone (ZPCAS or ZOPACAS): group of nations along the Atlantic coasts of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, formed with a special focus on opposing nuclear proliferation in the region; SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa; SWANA: Southwest Asia-North Africa, used as an alternative term for the wider Middle East.
However, the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time a whole nation had been systematically targeted, and the first in which entire regions had been depopulated. [8] Eventually, a total of 45 tented camps were built for Boer internees and 64 additional camps were built for black Africans.
A common theme among these groups was the argument that it was a capitalistic desire to gain access to the gold and diamond deposits in the Boer republics that motivated the Unionist government to declare war. Angered crowds often broke up such anti-war meetings, viewing them as unpatriotic.
The first was at Balmoral, at the site of a former concentration camp built during the Second Boer War. The effort at Balmoral was financed by American white supremacist politician David Duke. [28] Prominent right-winger Willem Ratte owns a farm in Balmoral. [29] Meanwhile, Morgenzon was the site of another failed attempt to set up a Volkstaat ...
The Orange River Convention (sometimes also called the Bloemfontein Convention; Afrikaans: Bloemfontein-konvensie) was a convention whereby the British formally recognised the independence of the Boers in the area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, which had previously been known as the Orange River Sovereignty.