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The history of the Cape Colony and the Boers in South Africa is covered at length in the 1980 novel The Covenant by American author James A. Michener. The Boers appear as a civilization in the 'Scramble to Africa' scenario in Civilization V: Brave New World. [37] Paul Kruger leads the civilization during the scenario.
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The Griquas are a subgroup of mixed-race heterogeneous formerly Xiri [1]-speaking nations in South Africa with a unique origin in the early history of the Dutch Cape Colony. [2] Like the Boers they migrated inland from the Cape and in the 19th century established several states in what is now South Africa and Namibia. The Griqua consider ...
Interest in the life and career of General De la Rey has made a resurgence in South Africa due to a popular Afrikaans song, De la Rey, released by folk singer Bok van Blerk in 2005. The song concerns an Orange Free State partisan facing impending defeat, the loss of his farm, and the incarceration of his family in a concentration camp during ...
South African settlers were entirely of Boer origin. While the Afrikaans language persists within the community today, it is spoken by only around 3,000,000 individuals. Argentina was chosen as a destination due to the government’s support for colonisation and opportunities for cultural and religious autonomy.
Boer is a Dutch occupational surname meaning "farmer". [1] Variants are Boere, Boeres, Boers, Den Boer and most commonly De Boer. People with this surname include: Boer. Albert Boer (1935–2002), Dutch writer; Dick Boer (born 1957), Dutch businessman, CEO of Ahold Delhaize; Dick Boer [de; nl] (born 1939), Dutch theologist
South Africa's white population in 1691 has been described as the Afrikaner "parent stock", as no significant effort was made to secure more colonist families after the dawn of the 18th century, [9] and a majority of Afrikaners are descended from progenitors who arrived prior to 1700 in general and the late 1600s in particular.
The founders – variously named Trekboers, Boers, and Voortrekkers – settled mainly in the middle, northern, north-eastern and eastern parts of present-day South Africa. Two of the Boer republics achieved international recognition and complete independence: the South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR; or Transvaal ...