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History [ ] Early Dutch settlement [ ] Painting of the arrival of The earliest Afrikaner communities in South Africa were formed at the Cape of Good Hope, mainly through the introduction of Dutch colonists, French Huguenot refugees and erstwhile servants of the VOC.

The loss of Afrikaner morale prompted a 'Kultuur' [culture] campaign to promote the Afrikaans language, and lead to the establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond Brotherhood.

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They set up their own schools, insisting that their children should be taught in Afrikaans and not be limited to the English-only instruction of government schools.

To that end, he sought to address the postwar labor needs of the gold mines by strictly enforcing pass laws in the cities and by collecting taxes from Africans in the countryside.

This had the effect of further alienating the Boers.

The elimination of these two serious concerns probably lessened the feeling that the Boers needed to be linked up with Britain for assistance.

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