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Netherlands–South Africa refers to the current and historical relations between the Netherlands and South Africa.Both nations share historic ties and have a long-standing special relationship, partly due to the Dutch colony in the Cape, linguistic similarity between Dutch and Afrikaans and the Netherlands' staunch support in the struggle against Apartheid.
The Dutch Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was a Dutch United East India Company (VOC) colony in Southern Africa, centered on the Cape of Good Hope, from where it derived its name. The original colony and the successive states that the colony was incorporated into occupied much of modern South Africa .
Most South Africans in the Netherlands are Afrikaners, a population group descended from Dutch (and to a lesser extent German and French) colonists who settled in the Cape Colony from 1652 onwards. There is also a smaller minority of Coloured South-Africans in the Netherlands, a multi-racial people group descending from various groups ...
Map of the Cape of Good Hope in 1885 (blue). The areas of Griqualand West and Griqualand East were annexed to the Cape Colony around 1880. The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope.
As a result, by 1691 over a quarter of the white population of South Africa was not ethnically Dutch. [8] The number of permanent settlers of both sexes and all ages, according to figures available at the onset of British rule, numbered 26,720, [8] of whom 50% were Dutch, 27% German, 17% French and 5.5% other. [42]
The Volksraad from Winburg was transferred to Potchefstroom and the South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek; the ZAR) was established as the name of the new country. [2]: 231 The Boer Republics were predominately Calvinist Protestant due to their Dutch heritage, and this played a significant role in their culture.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [14] [15] [16] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
South African people of Dutch descent (3 C, 388 P) Pages in category "Netherlands–South Africa relations" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.