Boers

They were known as Boers, the Dutch word for farmer.

Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer

In time, former company servants and new immigrants set up as independent farmers–hence the name Boers i.e., farmers given to their descendants.

Cry, the Beloved Country

In time, former company servants and new immigrants set up as independent farmers–hence the name Boers i.e., farmers given to their descendants.

Cry, the Beloved Country

In time, former company servants and new immigrants set up as independent farmers–hence the name Boers i.e., farmers given to their descendants.

Cry, the Beloved Country

In time, former company servants and new immigrants set up as independent farmers–hence the name Boers i.e., farmers given to their descendants.

Cry, the Beloved Country

He championed a white homeland for Afrikaners or Boers, as the Dutch word for Afrikaners is.

White Supremacist's Murder Opens Old Wounds

Now and again he poked me in the ribs with the handle of his assegai, as though to assure himself that I was solid, and several times he asked me to be so good as to prophesy how many Zulus would be killed before the "Amaboona," as they called the Boers, were "eaten up."

Allan's Wife

Contrariwise, people who defended the British treatment of the Boers justified it on the grounds that the Boers were a bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians who would quickly re-enslave the Africans if they got the chance (which, in fact, happened).

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The Boers were the most humane people where white men were concerned.

MY EARLY LIFE

The Boers were the most humane people where white men were concerned.

MY EARLY LIFE