Afrikaner

Afrikaners are white South Africans of predominantly Calvinist Dutch, German, French Huguenot, Friesian and Walloon descent who speak Afrikaans. Afrikaners are also sometimes referred to as Boers, but many Afrikaners now view this as a derogatory term.

References

• ¹ South African Census 2001
• Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, University of Virginia Press, 2003