Afrikaners
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Afrikaners
- Ethnic group.pop
- 2.8–3.5 million
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 2,710,461 (2011)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 92,400 (2003)
- Ethnic group.pop3
- ≈41,000 (2006)
- Ethnic group.pop4
- ≈40,000 (2006)
- Ethnic group.pop5
- ≈20,000 (2010)
- Ethnic group.pop6
- ≈13,000 (2006)
- Ethnic group.pop7
- 5,079 (2011)
- Ethnic group.pop8
- 1,197 (2013)
- Ethnic group.pop9
- 650 (2019)
- Ethnic group.languages
- First languageAfrikaansSecond or third language
Article
54 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Population
- 1691 estimates
- 1754 estimates
- 1806 estimates
- 1936 Census
- 1960 Census
- 1985 Census
- 1996 Census
- 2001 Census
- Distribution
- 2011 Census
- History
- Early Dutch settlement
- Impact of the British occupation of the Cape
- The Great Trek
- Boer republics
- Post Boer War diaspora
- South West Africa
- Genealogy
- Non-European ancestry
- Black Afrikaners
- Modern history
- Apartheid era
- Post-apartheid era
- Geography
- South Africa
- Namibia
- Botswana
- Afrikaner diaspora
- Australia and New Zealand
- North America
- Canada
- United States
- The United Kingdom
- Netherlands
- Other
- Culture
- Religion
- Language
- Literature
- Arts
- Cuisine
- Sport
- Numismatics
- Institutions
- Cultural
- Political
- Notable people
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Afrikaners () are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers who first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial and agricultural sector.
Afrikaans, a language which evolved from the Dutch dialect of South Holland, is the mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. According to the South African National Census of 2022, 10.6% of South Africans claimed to speak Afrikaans as a first language at home, making it the country's third-largest home language after Zulu and Xhosa.