Afrikaners in South Africa
   Afrikaners in SA    Afrikaners  are a Southern African  ethnic group  descended from predominantly Dutch  settlers  first arriving in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They traditionally dominated South Africa 's agriculture and politics prior to 1994. Afrikaans , South Africa's third-most widely spoken home language, is the mother tongue  of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds .  It evolved from the Dutch vernacular  of South Holland , incorporating words brought from the Dutch East Indies  (now Indonesia ) and Madagascar  by slaves.  Afrikaners make up approximately 5.2% of the total South African population based on the number of white South Africans  who speak Afrikaans as a first language in the South African National Census of 2011 .    Afrikaans/ Afrikaners in the Cape   The Afrikaans dialect spoken today originates from the Dutch language  spoken by early settlers in the 1600s. However, modern Afrikaans is in  fact an accumulation of many other influences, whi...














 
 
 
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