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  2. Trekboers - Wikipedia

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    In 1815, a Trekboer/trader named Coenraad (Du) Buys (a surname of French Huguenot origin) was accused of cattle theft and fled from the British. He settled in the (western) Transvaal. He allegedly contracted polygamous marriages with hundreds of indigenous women, with his descendants' populating the town of Buysplaas in the Gourits River valley ...

  3. Dorsland Trek - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Route of the Dorslandtrekkers (solid line) Dorsland Trek (Thirstland Trek) is the collective name of a series of explorations undertaken by Boer settlers from South Africa from 1874 to 1881, in search of political independence and better living conditions.

  4. Boers - Wikipedia

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    The Boers had cut their ties to Europe as they emerged from the Trekboer group. [24] The Boers possessed a distinct Protestant culture, and the majority of Boers and their descendants were members of a Reformed Church. The Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk ('Dutch Reformed Church') was the national Church of the South African Republic (1852–1902).

  5. Great Trek - Wikipedia

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    The Great Trek resulted from the culmination of tensions between rural descendants of the Cape's original European settlers, known collectively as Boers, and the British. It was also reflective of an increasingly common trend among individual Boer communities to pursue an isolationist and semi- nomadic lifestyle away from the developing ...

  6. Talk:Trekboers - Wikipedia

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    Well from the history that I am aware of the vast majority of Voortrekkers came from the descendents of semi nomadic Trekboer inhabitants of the Eastern Cape who had been settled in the region for some time due to the fact that a tribe to the east -which they first encountered in the 1770s- had stopped their past natural eastwards trekking ...

  7. Free Burghers in the Dutch Cape Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Protestant work ethic, the Calvinist work ethic [5] or the Puritan work ethic [a] [6] is a work ethic concept in theology, sociology, economics, and history that emphasizes that hard work, discipline and frugality [7] are a result of a person's subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith, particularly Calvinism.

  8. Oorlam people - Wikipedia

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    Oorlam clans were originally formed from mixed-race descendants of indigenous Khoikhoi, Europeans and slaves from Mozambique, Madagascar, India and Indonesia. Similar to the other Afrikaans -speaking group at the time, the Trekboers , Oorlam originally populated the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, later living as semi-nomadic commandos of ...

  9. List of Descendants characters - Wikipedia

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    In Descendants 2, Chad is shown a lot playing with the 3D printer in Carlos's room. He is also the ex-boyfriend of Princess Audrey. In Descendants 3, he decides to become Audrey’s sidekick, however, Audrey locks him in a closet at her cottage. He is later discovered by Ben and the VKs, and he runs away frightened.