Food<\/strong><\/h3>\nTwo kinds of food from pioneer days are still popular among Afrikaners:\u00a0beskuit\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0biltong<\/i>. Beskuit (rusks) are biscuits that have been oven-dried, served with coffee.\u00a0Biltong is strips of dried meat (traditionally, beef or venison).<\/p>\n
Statistics show that Afrikaners make up approximately 58% of South Africa’s white population, based on the language used in the home. English speakers account for about 37%.\u00a0Afrikaners are mostly found in\u00a0Windhoek\u00a0and in the Southern provinces. They have a population of around 100,000 in Namibia.<\/p>\n
As for Afrikaners in the diaspora, there has been a significant emigration of white people from South Africa since 1994. Thus, there are large Afrikaner and English-speaking South African communities in the UK and other developed countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A number of South Africans speak the\u00a0native language of\u00a0Afrikaans. They came up as a result of settlement by Dutch colonialists natives of Netherlands during the Apartheid regime. Later they merged with Britons, French and Germans to form an ethnic community commonly known as Boers. The group practice a distinct culture different from other cultures in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[429],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
5 Notable Truths About Afrikaners<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n