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

Afrikaner children in Namibia playing tug of war
Painting of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck
Trekboers making camp, an 1804 painting by Samuel Daniell.
Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War
Lizzie van Zyl, visited by Emily Hobhouse in a British concentration camp
Boer women and children in British concentration camps
Boer children, c. 1901
Admixture analysis of 77 Afrikaners.
de Klerk and Mandela shake hands in January 1992
Afrikaner farmer in Georgia, Caucasus region, 2011

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