HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Zulus
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Africans
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Boers
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Wakanda
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term Boer, derived from the Afrikaans word for farmer, was used to describe the people in southern Africa who traced their ancestry to Dutch, German and French Huguenot settlers who arrived in the Cape of Good Hope from 1652.
Detailed explanation-2: -Boers (/bʊərz/ BOORZ; Afrikaans: Boere (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbuːrə])) are the descendants of the Dutch-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Afrikaanders, Afrikaners or Boers are an ethnic population that live in South Africa and Namibia. Historically speaking, they are descendants of the Dutch who colonised the Cape region in the 17th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -The term “Afrikaner” (formerly sometimes in the forms Afrikaander or Afrikaaner, from the Dutch Africaander) currently denotes the politically, culturally and socially dominant and majority group among white South Africans, or the Afrikaans-speaking population of Dutch origin.
Detailed explanation-5: -The founders – variously named Trekboers, Boers and Voortrekkers – settled mainly in the middle, northern, north-eastern and eastern parts of present-day South Africa.