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Afrikaner people facts for kids

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Afrikaners are white South Africans who speak Afrikaans as mother tongue and follow the Afrikaans culture. Most of them have Dutch, German, French Huguenot, ancestors. Also known as Boere, Voortrekkers and Burgers, although under slightly different contexts. In South Africa there are about 3 million white people with Afrikaans as mother tongue, that can be assumed to be Afrikaners if they chose to follow the Afrikaans culture.


Images for kids

  • Toutrek

    Afrikaner children in Namibia playing tug of war

  • Charles Bell - Jan van Riebeeck se aankoms aan die Kaap

    Painting of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck

  • Daniell Trekboer

    Trekboers making camp, an 1804 painting by Samuel Daniell.

  • Afrikaner Commandos2

    Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War

  • Boercamp1

    Boer women and children in British concentration camps

  • Nylstroom Camp, c.1901. (22989079605)

    Boer children, c. 1901

  • Admixture proportions of the Afrikaner

    Admixture analysis of 77 Afrikaners.

  • Frederik de Klerk with Nelson Mandela - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 1992

    de Klerk and Mandela shake hands in January 1992

  • South African farmer in Georgia

    Afrikaner farmer in Georgia, Caucasus region, 2011

See also

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