{"id":47260,"date":"2025-05-14T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47260"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:51:06","slug":"afrikaners-africas-white-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/afrikaners-africas-white-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrikaners \u2013 Africa\u2019s White Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Afrikaners \u2013 Africa\u2019s White Tribe Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State welcomed the first group of Afrikaner refugees to the United States.<\/p>\n<h2>Who Are the Afrikaners?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Afrikaners are a white ethnic group native to South Africa<\/strong>, shaped through\u00a0<strong>ethnogenesis on African soil<\/strong>, and are often referred to as\u00a0<strong>\u201cAfrica\u2019s White Tribe\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0due to their\u00a0<strong>deep-rooted historical presence<\/strong>\u00a0since the 17th century.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin:\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0<strong>Afrikaner community originated in 1652<\/strong>, when\u00a0<strong>Jan van Riebeeck<\/strong>, under the\u00a0<strong>Dutch East India Company (VOC)<\/strong>, established a\u00a0<strong>resupply station<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0<strong>Cape of Good Hope<\/strong>, initially settled by\u00a0<strong>Dutch Protestants<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Over time, the settlers included\u00a0<strong>French Huguenots<\/strong>\u00a0fleeing persecution after the\u00a0<strong>Edict of Fontainebleau (1685)<\/strong>, along with\u00a0<strong>Germans<\/strong>\u00a0and enslaved people from\u00a0<strong>India, Indonesia, Madagascar<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>East Africa<\/strong>, contributing to the ethnic mix.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Formation of Afrikaner Identity<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A unique\u00a0<strong>Afrikaner identity developed<\/strong>\u00a0through interactions among\u00a0<strong>Europeans, slaves<\/strong>, and the\u00a0<strong>indigenous Khoikhoi<\/strong>, marked by\u00a0<strong>paternalistic household systems<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>strict social hierarchies<\/strong>, and the development of\u00a0<strong>Afrikaans<\/strong>\u00a0as a distinct language.<\/li>\n<li>Afrikaners were influenced by\u00a0<strong>Calvinist values<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>frontier living<\/strong>, and a\u00a0<strong>militant, self-reliant culture<\/strong>, especially among the\u00a0<strong>Trekboers<\/strong>\u00a0who moved inland in the 18th century and often engaged in\u00a0<strong>violent conflicts with indigenous communities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Afrikaners \u2013 Africa\u2019s White Tribe FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:\u00a0<\/strong>Who are the Afrikaners?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Afrikaners are an ethnic group of Dutch descent in South Africa, descended primarily from 17th-century Dutch settlers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:\u00a0<\/strong>Why are Afrikaners called Africa\u2019s \u201cWhite Tribe\u201d?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Despite being of European origin, their long history in Africa has earned them the identity of a &#8220;White Tribe&#8221; indigenous to the continent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/africa\/africas-white-tribe-who-are-the-afrikaners-trump-has-provided-asylum-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrikaners, a white ethnic group native to South Africa, emerged through ethnogenesis and are known as \u201cAfrica\u2019s White Tribe\u201d for their 17th-century roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":86413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[413,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-afrikaners-africas-white-tribe","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86416,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47260\/revisions\/86416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}