Afrikaner people

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.

Afrikaner People Media

• 

  Distribution of Afrikaans versus English as home language of white South Africans.*     87.5–100% Afrikaans*     75–87.5% Afrikaans*     62.5–75% Afrikaans*     50–62.5% Afrikaans*     50–62.5% English*     62.5–75% English*     75–87.5% English*     87.5–100% English

• 

  Painting of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck

• 

  Trekboers making camp, an 1804 painting by Samuel Daniell.

• 

  Weenen massacre: Zulus killed hundreds of Boer colonists (1838)

• 

  Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War

• 
• 

  Boer women and children in British concentration camps

• 

  7MGF/E/1/107*Photograph, printed, paper, monochrome, large group of children, manuscript text on reverse: '"Cocoa Party" at Nylstroom Inserted at page 86.

• 

  Admixture analysis of 77 Afrikaners.

• Alaric speaking Afrikaans.

• Roussow speaking Afrikaans.