Afrikaners
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Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers who first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as wel
Mixed-race "Afrikander" Trekboer nomads in the Cape Colony, ancestral people to the Oorlam and Griqua migrations, produced in the 1890s
Painting of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck
Trekboers making camp, an 1804 painting by Samuel Daniell.
Weenen massacre: Zulus killed hundreds of Boer colonists (1838)
Afrikaans
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Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and also Argentina, where a group in Sarmiento speaks a Patagonian dialect. It
Obelisks of the Afrikaans Language Monument near Paarl
Standard Dutch used in a 1916 South African newspaper before Afrikaans replaced it for use in media
"Dit is ons erns" ("This is our earnestness"), at the Afrikaans Language Monument
The side view of the Pretoria Art Museum, in Arcadia, Pretoria, with its name written in Afrikaans, Xhosa and Southern Ndebele