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'''Afrikaners''' (Afrikaans and Dutch: ''Africans'') also known as '''Boers''' which means 'farmer' in Dutch (Afrikaans), are a distinct group of descendants of [[European]] settlers, arriving in modern day [[South Africa]] on and after 6 April 1652. Their mother tongue is [[Afrikaans]], their predominant religion is [[Protestant Christianity|Protestant Christian]], particularly [[Afrikaner Calvinism]], and they identify with the Afrikaner culture.

==History==
===Origins of ethnic group===
Afrikaners are descended from northwestern European settlers, mainly coming from [[the Netherlands]], and religious refugees who lived in the [[Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]] during the period of administration (1652-1795) by the [[Dutch East India Company]] (''Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie'' or VOC) and the subsequent period of British rule, including primarily [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Calvinism|Calvinists]] and [[Flemish people|Flemish]] as well as [[German people|German]] [[Protestants]], [[French people|French]] [[Huguenots]], [[Frisians]], and [[Walloons]].

The original colony at the Cape, which was started as a refreshment station for the [[Dutch East India Company]], was first settled by the Dutch in 1652. The arrival in 1688 of a small group of French [[Huguenots]] who were fleeing religious persecution in France infused new blood and swelled the settlers' numbers. Some settlers from other parts of Europe (e.g. [[Scandinavia]] and the [[British Isles]]) also joined the ranks of the Afrikaners.

The first person recorded to refer to himself as an "Afrikaner" (simply meaning ''African'') was [[Hendrik Biebouw]] who, in March of 1707, stated that he was an African and did not want to leave Africa, after his expulsion from the Cape Colony was ordered by the magistrate of [[Stellenbosch]].

===Migrations===
====Great Trek====
In the 1830s and 1840s an estimated 12,000 [[Voortrekkers]] started penetrating the future [[Northern Cape]], [[Natal]] and [[Orange Free State]] provinces, putting themselves beyond the reach of British authority in order to escape relentless border wars with the [[Xhosa]] tribe, British colonialism, including its Anglicization policies, as well as to ease pressure on an overcrowding frontier where land was becoming scarce. This event caused a marked split in the Afrikaner population, with the [[Trekboer]] descended Afrikaners participating in the exodus referring to themselves as Boers or Voortrekkers, while the Afrikaners centered mainly in the western Cape who did not participate were referred to as the Cape Dutch.

While some historians claim that these series of mass migrations, later known as the [[Great Trek]], were partly caused because the Boers did not agree with the British restrictions on [[slavery]], the fact of the matter is most [[Trekboers]] did not own slaves, unlike the [[Cape Dutch]], their more affluent cousins in the western Cape who did not participate in the Great Trek. The vast majority of Voortrekkers were Trekboers from the Eastern Cape who engaged in [[pastoralism]]. Nevertheless, the British promulgation of Ordinance 50 in 1828, which guaranteed equal rights before the law to all "free persons of colour", was indeed a factor in Boer discontent, as is well documented by numerous contemporary sources; the various republics founded by the Voortrekkers prohibited slavery itself, but they would all enshrine inequality by race into their constitutions, as enforced by the British in all their colonies.

During the Great Trek they fought against the [[Zulu]]s, with war erupting when Voortrekker leaders [[Piet Retief]] and [[Gerhard Maritz]], along with their delegation, were lured under the pretence of a land treaty and massacred by King [[Dingane]] and his warriors or Impi, who administered the best land in some of the areas the Boers were attempting to trek into. Retief and the local Voortrekkers had performed several deeds for Dingane, including returning stolen cattle taken by a rival chief named Sekonyela, and came to finalise the treaty in which the Voortrekkers were granted lands in Dingane's kingdom before Dingane changed his mind. After the massacre of [[Piet Retief]]’s delegation, the Zulu [[Impi]]s also attacked Boer settlements at Blaauwkrans and Weenen, killing all women and children, amounting to half of the Natal contingent of Voortrekkers.

These attacks on the Trekboers evoked retaliation, with the 470 strong forces of [[Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius|Andries Pretorius]] taking on over 10,000 Zulu warriors who attacked their prepared positions at the [[Battle of Blood River]]. The Boers suffered only 3 injuries and no fatalities while 3000 Zulus were slain. This could be partially contributed to the Boers' use of guns over the Zulu traditional weapons; the Boers however attributed it to a vow they made to God before the battle that if victorious, they and future generations would commemorate the day as a Sabbath. 16 December was celebrated as a public holiday, Day of the Vow.

====Boer republics====
After the defeat of the Zulu forces and the recovery of the treaty between Dingane and Retief, the Voortrekkers proclaimed the [[Natalia Republic]]. This Boer state was annexed by British forces in 1843.

Due to the return of British rule, emphasis moved from occupying lands in [[Natal]], east of the [[Drakensberg]] mountains, to the west of them and onto the high veld of the [[Transvaal]] and Transorangia, which were lightly occupied due to the devastation of the [[Mfecane]]. Some were known to have ventured far beyond the present day borders of [[South Africa]], north as far as present day Zambia and Angola, also reaching the Portuguese colony of [[Algoa Bay]], modern-day [[Maputo]], capital of [[Mozambique]].

The Boers created independent states in what is now South Africa: the [[Transvaal]] Republic (the [[South African Republic]]) and the [[Orange Free State]]. The British also annexed these territories, which led to the two Boer Wars: The [[First Boer War]] (1880-1881) and the [[Second Boer War]] (1899-1902)- now called the South-African War, which ended with the inclusion of the Boer areas in the British colonies. The Boers won the first war, but lost the second, mainly due to the British employing their [[Scorched earth]] tactics, and the first use of [[Concentration camps]], which led to the deaths of an estimated 27,000 Boer civilians (mainly children under sixteen), who died in the concentration camps marking the deaths of about 15 percent of the local Boer population. About 15,000 [[Bantu]] civilians died in separate concentration camps, erected by the British forces.

Following the British annexation of the Boer republics, the creation of the [[South Africa|Union of South Africa]] (1910) went some way towards blurring the division between the British settlers and the Afrikaners.

====Boer diaspora====
After the second Anglo-Boer War three main Boer diasporas occurred. Starting in 1903 the largest group emigrated to the [[Patagonia]] region of [[Argentina]]. Another group emigrated to modern day Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General [[Ben Viljoen]] emigrated to Mexico as well as the American southwest of New Mexico and Texas.{{cn}}

====South West Africa====
With the onset of the [[First World War]], the [[Union of South Africa]] was asked by the Allied forces to attack the German territory of [[South West Africa]], resulting in the [[South-West Africa Campaign]]. Armed forces under the leadership of General [[Louis Botha]] defeated the German forces, who were unable to put up much resistance to the overwhelming South African forces.

Many Afrikaners objected to the use of the “[[List of concentration and internment camps#South Africa|children from the concentration camps]]” to attack the Afrikaner-friendly Germans, resulting in the [[Maritz Rebellion]] of 1914, which was quickly quelled by the government forces.

Some Afrikaners subsequently moved to South West Africa, which was administrated by South Africa, until its independence in 1990, after which the country was named [[Namibia]].

====Volkstaat====
A small group of Afrikaners has settled in the town of [[Orania]], with the goal of ultimately gaining a [[Volkstaat]] as the result of a process of Afrikaner demographic consolidation. Afrikaners today feel that they are facing a serious threat to their continued existence as a people, due to the relatively small population of Afrikaners, the dominance of the [[English language]] and the lack of any real political power. They also fear a repeat of the events in [[Zimbabwe]], especially from the more "radical" elements within the [[African National Congress]].

==External links==

*[http://mat-rodina.blogspot.com/2013/12/will-genocide-of-boers-now-begin.html Will the Genocide of the Boers Now Begin?] by Mat Rodina
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/theblissfullone/videos?view=0 The Boer] at [[YouTube]]

=== Encyclopedias ===
*[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Afrikaner Encyclopedia Britannica: Afrikaner]
*[https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/africa/south-african-political-geography/afrikaners Encyclopedia.com: Afrikaners]

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