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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 ...
Both countries of South Africa and Sri Lanka were part of the Dutch and British Empires. Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was a Dutch colony from 1658 - 1796 and a British colony from 1815 - 1948 while South Africa (mainly the Dutch Cape colony) was a Dutch colony from 1652 - 1806 and a British colony (including other parts of South Africa) from 1806 - 1910.
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. [41] Paul Kruger leads the civilization during the scenario.
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View this map on the BL Georeferencer service. Image taken from: Title: "History of the Boers in South Africa ... with three maps" Author: THEAL, George McCall. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 9061.eee.18." Page: 10 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1887 Publisher: Sonnenschein & Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003607007
Pro-apartheid South Africans attempted to justify the Bantustan policy by citing the British government's 1947 partition of India, which they claimed was a similar situation that did not arouse international condemnation. [160] Map of the black homelands in South Africa at the end of apartheid in 1994
The end of apartheid and the establishment of universal suffrage in South Africa in 1994 left some Afrikaners feeling disillusioned and marginalised by the political changes, which resulted in a proposal for an independent Volkstaat. Several different methods have been proposed for the establishment of a Volkstaat.
View this map on the BL Georeferencer service. Image taken from: Title: "History of the Boers in South Africa ... with three maps" Author: THEAL, George McCall. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 9061.eee.18." Page: 11 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1887 Publisher: Sonnenschein & Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003607007