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The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).
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Trekboers and they
Similar to the other Afrikaans-speaking group at the time, the Trekboers, they originally populated the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as semi-nomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.
The Trekboere were semi-nomadic pastoralists, subsistence farmers who began trekking both northwards and eastwards into the interior to find better pastures / farm lands for their livestock to graze as well as to escape the autocratic rule of the Dutch East India Company ( or VOC ), which administered the Cape, and who they saw as tainted with corruption and unconcerned with the interests of the free burghers, a social class from which most of the Trekboers came.
Trekboers and were
Those Trekboers who trekked into and occupied the eastern Cape were semi-nomadic.
It figured prominently in the late 17th century when the Trekboers began to inhabit the northern and eastern Cape frontiers, again during the Great Trek when the Voortrekkers left the eastern Cape en masse, as well as after the major republics were established during the Thirstland Trek.
The Trekboers, frontier farmers in the East who had been at the front of the colony's eastward expansion, were the ones who elected to trek further afield.
There were successive waves of migrations of Boer farmers ( known as Trekboers which literally means " moving farmers "), first east along the coast away from the Cape toward Natal, and thereafter north toward the interior, eventually establishing the republics that came to be known as the Orange Free State and the Transvaal ( literally " across / beyond the Vaal River ).
The Boer Republics ( sometimes also referred to as Boer states ) were independent self-governed republics created by the northeastern frontier branch of the Dutch-speaking ( proto Afrikaans ) inhabitants of the north eastern Cape Province and their descendants ( variously named Trekboers, Boers, Afrikaners and Voortrekkers ) in mainly the northern and eastern parts of what is now the country of South Africa.
The Trekboers were nomadic pastoralists descended from almost equal numbers of Dutch colonists, French Huguenots and German Protestants.
The Trekboers independence efforts were reversed by the British in 1796 upon their acquisition of the Cape as a result of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Meanwhile, their pastoral trekking kinsmen, the Trekboers, were migrating away from the Western Cape carving out a distinct culture and dialect with a strong desire for independence.
The descendants of the Cape Dutch in the twentieth century were considered more " liberal " and internationalist, while their northern, somewhat estranged kinsmen, the descendants of Voortrekkers and Trekboers, were considered more conservative, republican and nationalist.
The death toll has never been satisfactorily determined but the region was so depopulated that the Trekboers were able to occupy and take ownership of all the best land in the 1830s due to the low population of the area.
These were the " Trekboers " and the " Griquas ", Afrikaans-speaking migrants who inhabited the borderlands of the Cape Colony.
Trekboers and known
The Voortrekkers comprised two groups from the eastern frontier region of the Cape Colony, semi-nomadic pastoralists known as Trekboers, and established farmers and artisans known as Grensboere, or Border Farmers.
The Voortrekkers ( mainly descendants of Trekboers ) embarked on a series of mass migrations caused by the invading British, later known as the Great Trek.
Trekboers and Dutch
However, some scholars argue that most Trekboers did not own slaves, unlike the more affluent Cape Dutch who did not migrate from the western Cape.
The term Cape Dutch is believed to have been coined by Trekboers to illustrate the fact that the Cape Dutch did not share the Trekboers ' culture and interests or desire for independence.
The Cape Dutch spoke a dialect called Cape Afrikaans or Western Cape Afrikaans, while the Trekboers and most Voortrekkers spoke a dialect called Eastern Border Afrikaans.
Trekboers and British
The British did not try to stop Trekboers from moving away from the Cape.
The Trekboers served as pioneers, opening up the interior for those who followed, and the British gradually extended their control away from the Cape along the coast toward the east, eventually annexing Natal in 1845.
Trekboers and first
By the 1740s the first of the Trekboers had entered the Little Karoo.
After the first settlers spread out around the Company station, nomadic white livestock farmers, or Trekboers, moved more widely afield, leaving the richer, but limited, farming lands of the coast for the drier interior tableland.
Trekboers and Cape
A map of the expansion of the Trekboers out of the Cape Colony between 1700 and 1800.
Trekboers and by
An aquatint by Samuel Daniell of Trekboers making camp.
they and were
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
Now they were riding to kill him.
All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.
Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.
But what few containers they found were inadequate.
Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.
At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.
A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.
They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
But they were starting a new life.
They were going to town, and they were both excited.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
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