Boer facts for kids
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. 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 Boer later created the Boer Republics, which were defeated in the 1880-1881 and 1899–1902 Anglo-Boer wars (Anglo-Boere-oorlog). After that, many Boers emigrated to other countries, but many still live in modern South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
Images for kids
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Huguenot Memorial Museum
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Map of the Cape Colony in 1809, early British rule
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A map charting the routes of the largest trekking parties during the first wave of the Great Trek (1835–1840) along with key battles and events.
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Boer family traveling by covered wagon circa 1900
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Painting depicting the Bullock wagons moving over the billowy plains, 2 January 1860
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Descending from the Sneeuberge, a scene near Graaff-Reinet, by Burchell
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Passing Cradock Pass, Outeniqua Mountains, by Charles Collier Michell
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An aquatint by Samuel Daniell of Trekboers making camp
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Trekboers crossing the Karoo by Charles Davidson Bell
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A map of the expansion of the Trekboers (1700–1800)
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Administrative divisions of the Dutch Cape Colony
See also
In Spanish: Trekboer para niños
