Boers are Afrikaner.
I think what Republican meant is that the Afrikaner community is divided into two parts-the Boers, whose ancestors left in the Great Trek in the 1800s, and the Cape Dutch, whose ancestors preferred to stay where they were.
No. This was one of the many lies told about the Boers. The term Afrikaner is a political term that refers to a political regime: bot to an ethnic group. Under the Afrikaner designation were the Cape Dutch [ the folks who coalesced in & around Cape Town ] & the Boers [ the folks who emerged on the Cape frontier during the 1700s from the nomadic Trekboers ] & also included the Anglophones by JBM Hertzog’s [ a Cape Dutch who fought in the side of the Boers ] definition.
Theuns Cloete of Boervolk Radio rightly noted in 2007 that “the Afrikaners stole our [ Boer ] heritage by various different means”. in an American shortwave radio program called The Right Perspective. This is because when the Afrikaners rose to power in South Africa [ a macro State created by the British ] they appropriated quite a bit of Boer history but prevented the Boers from obtaining self determination as the Afrikaner establishment purposely prevented the Boers from reclaiming the Boer Republics during the 1940s when the Boers tried in MASSIVE numbers to get back their republics.
The Boers are only about one third of the total White Afrikaans population thus are marginalized by the dispossessing Afrikaner designation. The Cape Dutch have never had a freedom struggle while the Boers have had numerous freedom struggles. Which is why when Boers go forward as Afrikaners: they are DOOMING any prospect they could ever have at reacquiring their subverted independence self determination. The Boers people are facing an incredible obstacle by the Afrikaner establishment as the Cape Dutch are the ones with the money & power while the Boers never rose much higher than the working class & are shut out of power.
The Boers live in the more densely populated regions of South Africa thus are facing the brunt of the genocide while the Cape Dutch are fairly concentrated among the Cape Coloured region of the Western Cape & are not being targeted for death as much. That is why the genocide is overwhelmingly a Boer genocide despite the tragic fact that the Boers have been largely indoctrinated to see themselves as being part of the artificial Afrikaner macro grouping.
Cloete also rightly notes that the Boers were ALSO under Apartheid as the Afrikaners dominated them & prevented them from exercising any true form of self determination. The Boer people were NEVER part of the Cape Dutch [ who are much larger ] & are marginalized under the dispossessing Afrikaner designation.