In South Africa, an Afrikaner minority party, the National Party, came to power in 1948 and enacted a series of segregationist laws favouring White people known as apartheid, meaning "separateness".

Oct 18, 2020 · The Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group who are descended from 17th century Dutch, German, and French settlers to South Africa. The Afrikaners slowly developed their own language and culture when they came into contact with Africans and Asians.

May 20, 2021 · Afrikaners predominantly stem from Dutch, French and German immigrants who settled in the Cape, in South Africa, during the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th....

Mar 24, 2011 · Afrikaners contributed on all levels to South Africans becoming renowned as one of the greatest rugby nations in the world, and the world champions in 1995, 2007 and 2019.

Jul 31, 2018 · Examine the tension between two white European groups in South Africa, the Afrikaners (formerly Boers) and the English, in Afrikaner politician Francis Reitz’s A Century of Wrong.

Jun 8, 2018 · The Afrikaners are concentrated in the Republic of South Africa, located at the southern tip of the African continent. Geographically this includes the region between 22° to 35°s, and 15° to 33°e.

Afrikaner, a South African of European descent whose native language is Afrikaans. They are descendants of the Boers. See

Afrikaners are white South Africans who speak Afrikaans as mother tongue and follow the Afrikaans culture. Most of them have Dutch, German, or French Huguenot ancestors. They are also called Boer s, Voortrekkers and Burghers, although under slightly different contexts.

Afrikaans, a language primarily descended from Dutch, is the mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. According to the South African National Census of 2022, 10.6% of South Africans claimed to speak Afrikaans as a first language at home, making it the third most widely spoken home language in the country.

The Afrikaners people are a unique ethnic group in South Africa who trace their roots to European settlers who arrived in South Africa in the seventeenth century. Over time, this community developed their own language, national identity, history and religion.