Ghanzi
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Ghanzi is a town in the middle of the Kalahari Desert the western part of the Republic of Botswana in southern Africa. The region is known within the country for its beef industry. In fact, Ghanzi far
A view of a Ghanzi street
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
Ghanzi
…meaning "gigantic swollen buttocks", referring to the body part of an antelope, and later cattle that congregated around a pan in the area. The first Afrikaner to settle in Ghanzi was the flamboyant Hendrik van Zyl, who crossed the Kalahari and set up a small hunting and trading enterprise in the area around…
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)