Who were Trekboers?

The Trekboers were seminomadic pastoralists, subsistence farmers who began trekking both northwards and eastwards into the interior to find better pastures/farmlands for their livestock to graze, as well as to escape the autocratic rule of the Dutch East India Company

Dutch East India Company

Socio-economic changes in Europe, the shift in power balance, and less successful financial management resulted in a slow decline of the VOC between 1720 and 1799. After the financially disastrous Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784), the company was nationalised in 1796, and finally dissolved on 31 December 1799.

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(or VOC), which administered the Cape.

Who were the trekboers in South Africa?

The trekboers were nomadic pastoralists, forerunners of the Voortrekkers, the Dutch pioneers who forsook the Cape Colony and trekked north in the 1830s.

What is the meaning of trekboers?

Definition of trekboer

: a migratory grazier of southern Africa.

Are trekboers Dutch?

farmers of Dutch descent, called trekboers or Boers, began to settle the area. After 1836 came the Great Trek, a migratory movement in which larger numbers of Boer farmers seeking freedom from British rule moved north across the Orange River.

What did the trekboers use guns for?

They wanted to buy guns to protect themselves. In the early 19th century, missionaries came into the Tswana territory. They converted many of the Tswana to Christianity and taught them how to read and write.

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Why did the Trekboers leave the Cape?

The Trekboers were Dutch, German and French Free Burghers who moved away from the Cape to find better pastures for their livestock during the 17th and 18th centuries. Many of them wanted to get away from the strict rules of the VOC.

What advantage did the Trekboers have over the Khoikhoi?

The Trek Boers had better weapons which resulted in hundreds of Khoikhoi being killed and dispossessed of their traditional grazing lands. Some Khoikhoi were forced to become labourers and servants for the Europeans. Others fled further inland to join the San on less fertile land in mountainous areas.

Where did the Trekboers come from?

The Trekboers (/ˈtrɛkbuːrs/ Afrikaans: Trekboere) were nomadic pastoralists descended from European settlers on the frontiers of the Dutch Cape Colony in Southern Africa.

Where did the Voortrekkers come from?

Most Voortrekkers were farming families from the eastern frontier region of the Cape Colony, and their departure is associated with the war against the Xhosa of 1835 (see Cape Frontier Wars), although the relationship is disputed.

Are the Boers from Holland?

Boers (/bʊərz/ BOORZ; Afrikaans: Boere) are the descendants of the Dutch-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Who are the Afrikaners and where did they come from?

Afrikaners predominantly stem from Dutch, French and German immigrants who settled in the Cape, in South Africa, during the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th. Although later European immigrants were also absorbed into the population, their genetic contribution was comparatively small.

What are Dutch farmers called?

Boer, (Dutch: “husbandman,” or “farmer”), a South African of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent, especially one of the early settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Today, descendants of the Boers are commonly referred to as Afrikaners.

Where did the Griquas live?

Griqua, 19th-century people, of mixed Khoekhoe and European ancestry, who occupied the region of central South Africa just north of the Orange River. In 1848 they were guaranteed some degree of autonomy by a treaty with the British governor of South Africa.

Why did the Boers go on the Great Trek?

Great Trek (1835–40) Migration of c. 12,000 Boers from Cape Colony into the South African interior. Their motives were to escape British control and to acquire cheap land. The majority settled in what became Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Natal.

How many Voortrekkers were there?

The first wave of Voortrekkers lasted from 1835 to 1840, during which an estimated 6,000 people (roughly 20% of the Cape Colony's total population or 10% of the white population in the 1830s) trekked.

Where is Xhosa from?

Xhosa, formerly spelled Xosa, a group of mostly related peoples living primarily in Eastern Cape province, South Africa. They form part of the southern Nguni and speak mutually intelligible dialects of Xhosa, a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family.

What did the Voortrekkers eat?

Next to grilling the meat over an open fire, the "Voortrekkers" often made a stew of venison and whatever vegetables they could find, in a three-legged cast iron pot, hence the name "potjiekos" (potfood). As each animal was shot, it was cut up and added to the pot. The large bones were included to thicken the stew.

Are the Khoisan Bantu?

Khoisan /ˈkɔɪsɑːn/, or Khoe-Sān (pronounced [kxʰoesaːn]), according to the contemporary Khoekhoegowab orthography, is a catch-all term for those indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who do not speak one of the Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Khoikhoi") and the Sān or Sākhoen (also, in Afrikaans: ...

Who are Inboekselings?

Inboekselings were children and to a much lesser extent young women formally apprenticed - ingeboek - to Boer settlers and they were acquired by these households either as a result of being taken captive by Boer commandos, or they were handed over by African societies as tokens of political and diplomatic assurance, or ...

How did the Khoisan come to South Africa?

The maintained large herds of cattle throughout the country, and evidence suggests that they migrated to South Africa from Botswana. Some moved down from the Kalahari to the Cape, while others ventured southeast towards South Africa's high-lying lands.

What happened between the Xhosa and the Boers?

First war (1779–1781)

The First Frontier War broke out in 1779 between Boer frontiersmen and the Xhosa. In December 1779, an armed clash occurred, resulting from allegations of cattle theft by Xhosa people.

Who won the Xhosa wars?

The Cape Colony repeatedly defeated the Xhosa people in the Cape Frontier Wars and gradually annexed their territories. These annexations had by 1894 advanced the frontier of the Cape Colony eastward to the Mtamvuna River, the southwestern border of the colony of Natal.

Who was the leader of the Griquas?

Adam Kok, leader of the Griquas at Nomansland

Prominent families included were the Kok and Barends families, and the Waterboer family complex. These families maintained stability by taking on a life of raiding and establishing trade links with their neighbours.

Who is Adam Kok?

Adam Kok III, (born 1811, southern Africa—died Dec. 30, 1875, near Mzimkulu, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]), chief who led the people of the Griqua nation from their home in the Orange Free State (now part of South Africa) to found a new nation, Griqualand East, on the east coast of what is now South Africa.

Which province do the Griquas represent?

The majority of Griquas supporters hail from the Northern Cape province of South Africa, most notably in and around Kimberley, where the team plays their home games.