Ek het hierdie oulike brokkies teengekom in 'n ou boek van Lawrence G Green wat in 1949 uitgegee is, getiteld In the Land of Afternoon.
Sien bv hierdie definisie van "Boer":
"During my search for origins I came across this old definition of a Boer: 'It signifies a European by descent whose vernacular is the Taal and who uses familiarly no literary European language. It does not denote race of necessity; the Boer may be French, Dutch, German, or of any other blood - one of the most widely spread Boer families is Portuguese - neither does it denote occupation. The Boer is often a farmer and stock-owner; but he may also be a hunter, trader, the president of a republic. He remains a Boer still while the Taal remains his only speech.'"
Dan gaan hy oor na "Afrikaners":
"Though the people of the remote world of the Cape were called Boers, they were Afrikaners.* Theal, the historian, has pointed out that the earlier version of the word is more than two centuries old. Burchell, in 1811, gave this definition: 'All those born in the colony speak Dutch and call themselves Africaanders, whether they are of Dutch, German or French origin.'
Let ook op hierdie voetnota: *"Modern definitions of the term Afrikaner vary. The 'Afrikaanse Woordeboek' gives the meaning as anyone who belongs to the Afrikaans-speaking community, who is Afrikaans through descent or birth. Mr. C.R. Swart, Minister of Justice has expressed the more liberal view that anyone rooted in South Africa and loving the country is an Afrikaner."
Op die oog af lyk dit nogal na 'n taamlik liberale siening van Afrikanerskap waar hulle praat van "... anyone who belongs to the Afrikaans-speaking community..." Maar ek twyfel dat hulle bedoel het om ook gekleurdes daarby in te sluit. In elk geval, hieruit blyk dit dat daar al lankal gesoek word na 'n behoorlike omskrywing van wat 'n Afrikaner is. Seker maar omdat ons so 'n komplekse land is met verskillende bevolkingsgroepe wat elkeen sy eie siening van sulke sake het.
Nou vir 'n sappige brokkie van 'n ander soort:
"Holman, the traveler and author, passed through the Pampoenskraal in 1829 and found an inn or rather public house kept by an Englishman and a black woman he had purchased for £4 17s 6d.to act the part of wife.'"
Lyk my destyds kon jy 'n vrou nogal goedkoop aanskaf as jy dan nie goed kon vry nie. Pampoenskraal is die ou naam vir Durbanville.
Groete,
Tiens Pretorius
Kommentaar
Beste Tiens,
Ek sluit heelhartig met die volgende by jou aan:
First I wish to talk about my own relationship with Europe as the descendant of one of the many peoples throughout the world that trace their roots to your continent. My ancestors were Huguenots from France who came to South Africa via Holland in 1688. My language, Afrikaans, has its roots in the Dutch, Flemish and German spoken by the employees of the Dutch East India Company and by the first settlers in the Cape. It also draws richness from the Malay language that was brought to the Cape by slaves from the East Indies. My religion derives from the Dutch Reformed Testament of Dordt in 1619. My culture, like the cultures of so many peoples throughout the world, is suffused with the unparalleled literature, art and music of Europe.
And yet I am an African. For centuries my ancestors have identified themselves with Africa -- from the moment more than 300 years ago when Hendrik Biebouw, a Dutch settler in the Cape, proudly proclaimed "ek ben een Afrikander!" -? I am an African!
One hundred and fifteen years ago my people fought one of the first and greatest anti-? colonialist wars in the history of Africa. The Anglo-?Boer War was the costliest of the more than 40 wars that the British fought between the Napoleonic War and the First World War. It involved the deployment of more than 430 000 British troops and ended in the destruction of our country, the burning of our farms and the death of 27 000 of our women and children in concentration camps.
(einde van aanhaling)
Bogenoemde aanhaling kom uit die pen van Mnr. FW de Klerk. http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71639?oid=433525&sn=Detail&pid=71639
Dis duidelik hieruit dat 'n Boer, nie anders sal om trots te wees op hul Voortrekkererfenis en stryd teen die Britse onderdrukking met hul Vryheidsoorloë nie.
Heel tereg en nes jy dit hierbo stel, is enigeen wat hul daarmee wil identifiseer - ongeag ras of taal - 'n Boer!
Nes die kommunis Nelson Mandela 'n ikoon vir die Kruiperkaner en "useful idiot" soort Kwien onderdane in ons Anglo en Amerikaanse piesang republiek is, net so is President Paul Kruger 'n ikoon vir die Boere.
Weeg gerus self die kommunis Nelson Mandela se Nkandla soort erfenis teen Oom Paul se Krugerwiltuin vandag ...
In teenstelling tot FW de Klerk se kruipery by die Ingelse, het President Paul Kruger die volgende woorde op Dingaansdag 1880 aan die Britse Kommissaris in die Kaap, Sir Owsen Lanyon, gestuur: "We declare before God, who knows the heart, and before the world: Any one speaking of us as rebels is a slanderer! The people of the South African Republic have never been subjects of Her Majesty, and never will be."
Ja, wat sou Oom Paul geseg het as hy vandag FW de Klerk se liriese kruipery voor die Ingelse moes lees?
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/fw-de-klerk-why-south-africa-owes-a-huge-debt-to-the-iron-lady-8574822.html
FW de Klerk se kwalifisering van 'n Boere- Afrikaner staan egter: dapper harte wat terwille van selfbeskikking, dit twee keer teen die grootste moondheid in hul tyd - Brittanje - ter wille van vryheid vir almal aan Mzansi teen 'n oormag van 400 000 troepe geveg het.
Die grootskaalse belastering en wanvoorstelling wat die Boere sedert die Groot Trek verduur het, sal nie in 'n honderdjaar uitgewis word nie.
Daar was wel 'n tyd toe die Boere groot bewondering in die wêreld geniet het.
Na die Ingelse invaller Jameson uit die Kaapkolonie op sy moer gekry het, het Duitsland se Keiser William die volgende kabelgram aan Oom Paul gestuur:
Received January 3d, 1896.
From Wilhelm I.R. Berlin.
To PRESIDENT KRUGER, Pretoria.
"I tender you my sincere congratulations that, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, you and your people have been successful in opposing with your own forces the armed bands that have broken into your country to disturb the peace, in restoring order, and in maintaining the independence of your country against attacks from without.
WILHELM I. R."
Dis een van Oom Paul en die Boerevolk se kosbaarste erkennings.
Prins Otto von Bismarck het Oom Paul Kruger as die grootste so gebore staatsman van alle tye beskryf - en ek sekondeer dit!
Daarteenoor moes ons Boere die arrogante narsisme van PW Botha (mag God sy siel genadig wees) en die uiteindelike oorgawe deur FW de Klerk beleef.
Hoe hartseer; die Bittereinders kon net geknak word deur die Britte se gewetenlose massamoord op hul weerlose vroue en kinders - PW en FW se Nasionale Afrikaanses kon nie die sportboikotte oorleef nie!
Dis die verskil tussen 'n Boere- Afrikaner en 'n Nasionale- Afrikaanse!!!!!
Tiens, ek kan dae hier sit en tik uit my trotse erfenis.
VIR ALTYD 'n BOER!
Ons beurt sal weer kom!
Boeregroete,
Cornelius Henn
Wanneer die term "boer" gebruik word, word verwys na iemand se beroep. Hy/sy besit of huur 'n plaas. So 'n boer kan enige geslag of kleur of nasionaliteit wees. Die term "Boer" is gewoonlik 'n sinoniem vir "Afrikaner" en word tot Afrikaanssprekende blankes met 'n bepaalde politieke seining beperk. 'n Afrikaanssprekende blanke wat bv die ANC steun, sal nie 'n Boer of Afrikaner genoem word nie; hy/sy is hoogstens 'n verloopte Afrikaner.
Johannes Comestor