I really can’t understand the difference.

and what’s more – there were MANY MORE Native poeple settled in north america, than there were afrikans settled in southern Africa….

not that that makes what the Afrikaaner celebrates ok.

NO!!!!

But i just want to know why it is that what happened in North America and celebrating the day of THANKGIVING – is OK????

I would appreciate it…. thank you so much!!

In South America there is also a clear difference between Argentina, which was assimilated by Europeans, and Bolviia, which still boasts a Native majority and a great part of the population speak in native languages.

This attempt was later successful during the brutal aftermath of the Anglo-Boer War in which 50 % of the Boer child population had died in the British concentration camps & many Boers were chased off their farms forced to look for work in the cities where they often encountered Afrikaners. [ 8 ] The program of forcing the Boers to be linked to the Cape Dutch [ what the Afrikaner Nationalists called "uniting" the Afrikaans speakers ] ended up marginalizing the Boers in the process as the Boers are the smaller segment [ 9 ] of the Afrikaans speaking group under such a designation.

Therefore to keep this tenuous Afrikaans coalition together the Cape Dutch leadership [ which ran the Broederbond ] had to appropriate some key events of Boer history like the Great Trek [ which they named ] & reformulate it to conform to the Afrikaner Nationalist agenda to secure the British created macro State of South Africa while omitting or minimalizing other key events such as their Trekboer origins & the significance of the Boer adoption of the red / white & blue horizontal tri colour at their first Boer Republics in 1795 while the Cape Dutch dominated Afrikaner Nationalists adopted the orange / white & blue horizontal tri colour.

The Boers were not on a “divine mission” to conquer & this ignorant assessment shows the author as a lazy researcher because the cause of the Great Trek was over British Colonial oppression & the constant Xhosa attacks & killing on Boer farms. The Boers debated what to do & initially decided to trek north until realizing the the dessert conditions were too inhospitable then later decided to trek north east into the depopulated [ due to the Difaqane of Shaka ] regions north of the Orange River.

This day is in fact a “day of thanksgiving” to those of Boer & Voortrekker [ another term the Afrikaner Nationalists coined as part of a program to appropriate Boer hist ] descent. The Boers would be commemorating it even if they had defeated Germans or British as the race of those who were attempting to wipe them out was not a factor.

Furthermore: the Boers reconciled with the Zulu when they exchanged rocks of peace in 1840 & gathered again later in 1866 to stack rocks on the Nacome River in a gesture of reconciliation. [ 10 ] It is a crying shame that the Afrikaners had to hijack this sacred Boer event in order to promote their agenda because they have left the false impression to the rest of the world that it was about conquest & that there was no reconciliation. The whole point of this day was about the remembrance of the vow the Boers took to God [ some abstained fearing the consequences [ 11 ] should their descendents break the Vow ] not even about the later battle they won against overwhelming odds.

This article attempts to portray a false impression with racial income disparity as well. It should be pointed out that the Rapport newspaper noted that 1 million White Afrikaans speakers live under the poverty line now & that this affects the Boer descendents much more as they have traditionally been part of the working class.

The Boer people are a homegrown ethno cultural people who speak a language historians classified as Eastern Border Afrikaans [ named after the Cape frontier where they developed ] Therefore the Boers are not only under South African occupation but as a result of past Afrikaner colonization are also under Afrikaner domination.

Notes.

1. South African History at History World.

Quote: [ By the 1770s the Dutch nomads have penetrated as far as Graaff-Reinet, some 400 miles northeast of Cape Town. They become known as Trekboers (Dutch for 'wandering farmers'), a word subsequently often shortened to Boers. ]

2. Christianity in Central Southern Africa Prior to 1910.

Quote: [ The majority of the original white settlers, known as Cape Dutch, or in frontier regions Boers, maintained a nominal loyalty to the Dutch Reformed Church. ]

3. The Boers in East Africa: Ethnicity and Identity. Brian M. Du Toit. Page 1.

4. Noted also on the Bowdoin College Page.

5. The Devil’s Annexe. A Continent in Agony by Sidney & Shirley Robbins.

6. Cecil Rhodes & the Cape Afrikaners by Mordechai Tamarkin. Page 57.

7. The Story of the Boers by C W van der Hoogt. Page 96.

8. Boer / Afrikaner or White: Which are you? by Adriana Stuijt.

9. New Coffins, Old Flags, Microorganisms And The Future of the Boer.

10. This was also noted by Pieter Mulder in an address to Parliament in 2005.

11. The Great Trek. Oliver Ransford.

Post Script. The history of the Boers is rarely ever told from the perspective of the actual Boer folk.

Maybe it is because it was not written by Prof but by someone else and Prof has not added anything thereto.