White South AfricaDemographics
Statistics South Africa estimated that, as of July 2009[update], there were about 4,472,100 white people in South Africa, amounting to 9.1% of the country's population.[1] Roughly 59% of white South Africans speak Afrikaans as their mother language and about 39% speak English.[2] Speakers of Afrikaans refer to themselves as Afrikaners. Unlike the Afrikaners, the English speakers have not constituted a coherent political or cultural entity in South Africa. Hence, the absence of a commonly accepted term to designate them, although 'English South African' or 'English-speaking South African' is used (see Anglo-African).
Approximately 87% of white South Africans are Christian, 9% have no religion, and 1% are Jewish. The largest Christian denomination is the Dutch Reformed Church, with 34% of the white population being members. Other significant denominations are the Methodist Church (8%), the Roman Catholic Church (7%), and the Anglican Church (6%).[3]
[snip]
Not quite. The Boers have very few actual Dutch roots as they are in fact mostly of German / Frisian / French Huguenot & Danish origin. The erstwhile named Cape Dutch [ ie: the bulk of the Afrikaners ] had a lot more Dutch roots though. The notion that the Boers were of Dutch origin stems directly from the fact that the VOC hid the Boers' ancestors true ethnicity behind the "Dutch" designation - just as Afrikaners often still hide the Boers' ethnicity behind the artificial Afrikaner designation. Afrikaner Nationalists & particularly the Broederbond rewrote the history of the Boers & lumped term in with the Afrikaners despite the fact that the Boers are an anthropologically distinct entity from the Afrikaners as the Boers developed on the Cape frontier long before the Cape Dutch population coalesced at the Western Cape. Most Westerners also often do not realize that the Boers were & are not White Colonials as they are in fact an indigenous
homegrown group which developed on African soil out of the diverse groups the VOC dumped at the Cape & that they speak a homegrown language which developed [ as a lingua franca ] among the various folks there & is spoken not just by the Boers & the Afrikaners but by numerous mixed race groups as well & in fact got started as a distinct language because of the influence of the mixed race groups.
The Boers Were Not Colonials.
The Noted Distinction of Boers From Afrikaners.
The Afrikaner Domination of the Boers.
The Long Struggle For Boer Self Determination.
Population of the Boer Nation.
First interview TRP did with Theuns Cloete of Boervolk Radio.
Hendrik Verwoerd was not a friend of the Boer Nation.
True the Boers & Afrikaners are mostly Protestant but the Boers do not have as much Dutch heritage despite having quite a number of names spelled in a Dutch fashion because the VOC RESPELLED their names in such a fashion including numerous German & French names. Though quite a number of French names retained their original spelling. The Boers are still to this day largely misrepresented because the Afrikaner elite still seeks to speak on behalf of anyone whose home language is Afrikaans while the smaller Boer segment is routinely marginalized & stuck under a form of Afrikaner domination.