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Boer
(
IPA
: /bur/) is the
Dutch
word for
farmer
which is used to call the descendants of the
Dutch
farmers of
Southern Africa
during the 1700s, as well as those who left the
Cape Colony
during the 1800s to live in the
Orange Free State
,
Transvaal
and
Natal
. They did this to escape the
British
rule, and the wars between the British imperial government and the native tribes on the eastern frontier.
In 1657, “vrybriewe” was granted to 9 burgers, the first
farmers
or Boers (Boere) at the Cape. Although they were not known as Afrikaners, they did not regard themselves as living in a
European
country. As more immigrants from Europe arrived at the Cape, more international marriages took place. Soon their language and culture were lost and transformed. They regarded themselves as a new nation, the
Afrikaner people
.
Paul Heyns
, born in
1696
christened his son Michiel Afrikanus (the Afrikaner).
One
Hendrik Bieslow
in
1707
proclaimed in public “Ik ben een Afrikaander”. The Boers later created the
Boer Republics
, which were defeated in the
1880
-
1881
and
1899
?
1902
Anglo-Boer wars
(Anglo-Boere-oorloe). After that, many Boers emigrated to other countries, but many still live in modern
South Africa
,
Eswatini
(formerly
Swaziland
) and
Zimbabwe
.
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