This is the fifth part of an interview conducted by the shortwave / internet radio program: The Right Perspective that they did with Theuns Cloete of Boervolk Radio on Jan 6 2007 on the 150th anniversary of the Transvaal Vierkleur flag: one of the most recognizable symbols of the Boerevolk. The Orange Free State Vierkleur flag would also become 150 on Feb 23 2007. The interview was an hour long with no breaks & is posted here in 9 parts.
The history of the Boers is often told from a Western / British or Afrikaner point of view & thus often from a skewed perspective. This interview is refreshing & important as the Boers’ history is explained & told from a Boer perspective.
The facts concerning the Boers are often obscured as the Boers have been overshadowed for the past 100 years most notably by the Afrikaner Nationalists: the Cape based political heirs to the artificial macro state of South Africa created by the British & imposed onto the region.
The Boers trekked from the Cape Afrikaners & the western Cape beginning in the late 1600s & throughout the 1700 when they were nomadic migrating farmers known as the Trekboers occupying the northern & eastern Cape frontier where some later settled down & were known as Grensboere or Border Farmers. A large number of their descendents became known as the Voortrekkers who left the eastern Cape en mass -mainly due to British Colonialism- to trek into the largely uninhabited (due to the Difaqane) interior were they would establish numerous Boer Republics of which the Transvaal Republic (also known as the South African Republic which was composed of the former Potchefstroom Republic / Lydenburg Republic / Rustenburg Republic / Utrecht Republic & the Zoutpansberg Republic) & the Orange Free State (the northern part of which was the former Winburg Republic) were recognized by other governments around the world.
The Sand River Convention signed on Jan 17 1852 between the British & the Transvaal Boers recognized the independence of the Boers north of the Vaal River. This lead to the independence of Boer Republics north of the Vaal River which would coalesce into the South African Republic on Jan 6 1857.
The Orange River Convention signed on Feb 17 1854 between the British & the Transorangia Boers recognized the independence of the Boers north of the Orange River up to the Vaal River. This lead to the independence of the Orange Free State on Feb 23 1854.
The Boer Republics were conquered on May 31 1902 by the British at the conclusion of the the second Anglo-Boer War after 27 000 Boer civilians died in the British run concentration camps. This represented the death of close to 50 % of the total Boer child population of the republics & is one of the main reasons how they were able to be overshadowed for the next 100 years by other forces ascending to power in the region.
Some clown made a’n made in china Boerboetie account called AfrikanerWeerBoetie. Luckaly he has ran away with his tail between the legs. That ass was only out to mis inform people, can you give me some info about the real?
Boerboetie is around
BiltongBaz. A few great books about the Boers are: Oom Paul’s People – Howard C Hillegas. The Story of the Boers by a Dutch diplomat C W van der Hoogt. The Great Trek by Oliver Ransford. The book by Ransford often calls the Boers “Afrikaners” due to the erroneous Afrikaner claim to & effective Afrikaner appropriation of Boer history as it was written in 1973. The others were written in 1900 though van der Hoogt ‘s book often employed the term Afrikander to describe all White Afrikaans persons.
Boerboetie? He just shut his account down one day. I emailed him twice, but got no response.
Who knows? He said he received a lot of hate mail from Blacks in America, so maybe they found his home address and BLACKmailed him lol.
No sorry man, ive never been “diebiltongboer” but its not a bad name tho lol
Ya I know what its like, people with good vids seem to dissapear sometimes. Do you know what happened to BoerBoetie? if you heard of him.
I liked 1 or 2 of his vids too
Correct me if I’m wrong, but surely the Boers, even those of French descent, would have no reason to feel akin to the current French people.
Wasn’t it a case of the French Catholics (who compose the majority of modern French people) expelling the Hugenot minority? And the Hugenot minority then being amalgamated into the Boer nation, as well as several other nations?
Was diebiltongboer one of your old accounts? I seem to remember you had a very good video about Ian Smith uploaded last year, but then you closed your account.
Yeah well. Take Wallonia and keep it, no offence intended but the Walloons are responsible for the high tax rate in Belgium. They are economically dependent on the Flemish and its unfair on people in Brussels.
Wallonia should be incorporated into France.
Im just 1 of many S Africans who have become interested in the Boer history
Where can I get info about the whole thing?
Some school history books dont even mention the word Boer, only Jan van Riebeck & Dutch. Maybe you can send me a few links
Where can I get a complete “true” history book about the Boers from ?
Ill be very greatfull for your help
I realise the only people who seem to know anything are the old grandmas or the odd right-wing party wanting their republic back
Cheers bru
Hey Pinard china. Many S Africans trace their surnames back to Germany including my name & we know we have alot of German in our blood but in the new SA people are becoming more & more interested about their origins
-probably because of a threat called Uruhu which is a planned mass slaughter of whites starting in Jo-burg when Mandela dies like Siener told of
& when we think of war, we think of the Boer war, My family comes from the Transvaal & I had family in the war.
Templar. This is a total shame because France was one of the countries on the side of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War. France was also one of the many countries which recognized the Boer Republics. Author Oliver Ransford noted in The Great Trek in Chapter 6 that an “urbane polish” often went with the Boers of French Huguenot descent. The French language also helped to shape the emerging Afrikaans dialects.
We, French, don’t want to be associated with the Boer. Our only brethrens outside France (and Belgium and Switzerland) are in North America, especially in Quebec.
So of the “Dutch” immigrants what percentage would you have said were actually Frisian?
Hold on. If there was 5000 Germans, only 1000 Dutch (inc.Frisians) and 300 French then how is it that German ancestry accounts for comparatively little?
This is an under count as the French origins is as high as close to 25 % as noted in The Contribution of the Huguenots located at the Huguenot Society of South Africa web site.
Researcher GFC de Bruyn also notes a 25 % French origin.
The German origins is represented more in the Boers than the Cape Dutch as many of the German immigrants settled in the north east where the Boers developed. The Frisian element is often hidden within the Dutch designation.
I read that French origins accounted for a mere 7.2% of Boer & Cape Dutch origins and that it was 30% German and that with the exception of about 3% made up by other European origins and 5% of non-European origins that the remainder was Dutch and Frisian.