Afrikaners are an ethnic group the started from dutch settlers that only spoke Afrikaans. Although this group was derived from dutch settlers, it was also an ethnic group that was common among native South Africans. They are mostly white and consist of 5% of the population.
The Afrikaner party was a minority party and according to Wikipedia, "In South Africa, an Afrikaner minority party, theNational Party, came to power in 1948 and enacted a series of segregationist laws favouring whites known as apartheid. These laws allowed for the systematic persecution of opposition leaders and attempted to enforce general white supremacy by classifying all South African inhabitants into racial groups."
Afrikaners are an ethnic group the started from dutch settlers that only spoke Afrikaans. Although this group was derived from dutch settlers, it was also an ethnic group that was common among native South Africans. They are mostly white and consist of 5% of the population.
The Afrikaner party was a minority party and according to Wikipedia, "In South Africa, an Afrikaner minority party, the National Party, came to power in 1948 and enacted a series of segregationist laws favouring whites known as apartheid. These laws allowed for the systematic persecution of opposition leaders and attempted to enforce general white supremacy by classifying all South African inhabitants into racial groups."
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