Talk:Boere-Afrikaner

There are a few problems & errors with this article. The origins of the Boerevolk started back in the 1700s among the nomadic Trekboers who were living in the northern & eastern Cape frontier. By the early 19th cent: the Boers were already long since settled on the Cape frontiers. The Boers are a different ethnic group to the bulk of the Afrikaners as the Boers have much more German ancestors due to the fact that many of the German arrivals settled in the north eastern frontier where the Boers developed. The Boers also developed their own dialect of what was later called Afrikaans of which the Boers often called the Taal & which was removed from the public sphere starting in around 1923.

The HNP does not even recognize the Boer nation. The Chairman of Boervolk Radio: Theuns Cloete noted in an interview that Jaap Marais rejected the Boer nation when he spoke to him years ago.

Classical liberalism IS a form of conservatism & is close to Paleoconservatism.

The Boers have never considered themselves "Europeans". This is the label the British later brought over when they introduced their segregationist system & laws.

Hendrik Verwoerd was not a Boer. He was a Dutch born person who was raised as Cape Afrikaner. The Chairman of Boervolk Radio also noted in another interview that Verwoerd was a "traitor" to the Boer nation & "did great damage" to the Boerevolk. The Afrikaners & particularly the Broederbond which ran the National Party- suppressed the Boer people & even prevented them from knowing their full history & prevented them from rising up too high in political ranks.

Andries Treurnicht was also not a Boer as he was born in the Western Cape & was from the people formerly known as the Cape Dutch. Andries Treurnicht & the C P ALSO rejected the Boer nation.

Ron7 (talk) 13:05, 1 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Some statements made ring strange to me and I'm sure would also to many other Afrikaners. In all my life in South Africa I have never ever thought of my population group as two distinct groups called Boers and Afrikaners. Culturally we are one and the same, although there may be political differences. Ollie from Cape Town (dugeot AT iafrica dot com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.243.11.118 (talk) 18:20, 4 August 2008 (UTC)