Afrikaner


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Synonyms for Afrikaner

a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans

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belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language

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Under the presidency of its anti-colonial Afrikaner leader the small republic was reluctantly dragged into what became one of Africa's first major anti-colonial wars, variously referred to as the Anglo-Boer War or the South African War.
- Hannes Louw, Co-President of the Afrikaner Society
Altogether, 8 (self-reported ancestry) Afrikaner patients were recruited, of whom 7 were homozygous or compound heterozygous for the FANCA founder mutations.
Once the appropriate analyses and risk assessments have been undertaken, the counsellee may be offered a molecular genetic test, including testing for the Afrikaner founder mutations as a first-line testing option (prices range from approximately ZAR1 600 to ZAR3 500).
In 'n wereld waar Afrikaner-voorbeelde van verset teen apartheid min en onbekend was, het Brink soos Breyten Breytenbach 'n wereld oopgeskryf wat dit vir ons, die geslag van apartheid, moontlik gemaak het om genuanseerder met ons leefwereld om te gaan: nie alle Afrikaners was verdrukkers nie, nie alle Afrikaners het apartheid gesteun nie, nie alle Afrikaners het hulle rug op swart mense gedraai nie.
But, above all, there was his extraordinary, almost unbelievable, lack of bitterness toward his Afrikaner jailers.
UFS is in the heart of the Free State, the traditional center of Afrikaner power, settled in the mid-19th century by Dutch settlers who trekked inland in covered wagons from the Dutch East India Company's colony at the Cape of Good Hope 600 miles southwest.
For much of the second half of the 20th century, Afrikaner nationalism was the driving force in South African politics.
With a hefty bounty at stake, the relentless Afrikaner pits his wits against his Maori quarry in the Kiwi wilderness.
For Davies, Afrikaner identity has undergone an immense shift since the end of apartheid.
The picture was removed from the page, which boasts a photograph of Terre'Blanche on horseback, waving the swastika-like flag of his Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB -Afrikaner Resistance Movement).
We present an audit of testing for disease-causing BRCA mutations in a diverse patient population of Afrikaner, Xhosa and mixed ancestry with a high incidence of breast cancer.
Then the links between Afrikaner cultural pride, nationalism, and identity, and the role of the theater will be examined in light of their exposure in Exits and Entrances.