Kaapsche Hollanders (Dutch) | |
|---|---|
Left to right: Sir David Graaff, 1st Baronet, Marie Koopmans-de Wet, Christoffel Brand were all prominent Cape Dutch figures. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Western Cape | ~250,000 (1899 estimate)[1] |
| Languages | |
| Afrikaans, South African English | |
| Religion | |
| Calvinism (see Afrikaner Calvinism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Boers, Cape Coloureds, Baster, Griqua the Dutch, Flemings | |
Cape Dutch, also commonly known as Cape Afrikaners, were a historic socioeconomic class of Afrikaners who lived in the Western Cape during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The terms have been evoked to describe an affluent, educated section of the Cape Colony's Afrikaner population which did not participate in the Great Trek or the subsequent founding of the Boer republics.[2][3] Today, the Cape Dutch are credited with helping shape and promote a unique Afrikaner cultural identity through their formation of civic associations such as the Afrikaner Bond, and promotion of the Afrikaans language.[4]
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- ^ Gooch, John (2000). The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image. New York: Routledge Books. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-0714651019.
- ^ Worrall, Dan Michael (2009). The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History, Volume Two. Fulshear, Texas: Concertina Press. pp. 2. ISBN 978-0982599617.
- ^ Dubow, Saul (2006). A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-0199296637.