In the history of Southern Africa, the Trekboere were nomadic pastoralists descended from almost equal numbers of Dutch colonists, French Huguenots and German Protestants in the Cape Colony (founded in 1652). The Trekboere began migrating from the areas surrounding what is now Cape Town - such as Paarl (settled from 1688), Stellenbosch (founded in...
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(from the article `Orange Free State`) ...by Zulu military campaigns, and their place was taken by the Sotho (Basotho) and Griqua peoples. At the same time, seminomadic pastoral farmers of ... ...manual labour in the colony, there were few economic opportunities for the burgeoning white population. Eventually more than half of these peo...
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Migrant farmer, in Afrikaans; signifies participation in nineteenth-century population migrations eastward from the Cape of Good Hope. See also Boer.
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