The Anglo-Boer War: 1899-1902

[Loki]

Okey, I have to ask; where the Afrikaner republics populated just by Boer settlers, or there were many Bantu people there, among them?


Some person told me that many lands in South Africa were not inhabited by Bantu nor Khoisan peoples before Dutch arrive to there, allegedly because of its cooler climate. I’m not sure if it is totally true.

It's true that large swathes of inner South Africa were unpopulated, but the Trekboers gradually came into contact with Bantu tribes who moved southward. With some they made deals concerning land, and with others they fought battles.

[Smeagol]

I didn't know mixing was that common. I definitely do not see any SSA in most South African Whites though.

[Kazimiera]

The vast majority of the descendants of early mixed marriages were taken up in the Cape Coloured population, though.

The SSA contribution among modern day whites is between 0-3% generally. It's not that much.



Yeah, but these later additions formed separate communities.

From the info I found, the females were taken into the white population and the males would have formed the Coloured population. Which would also explain why the Coloured population has slave surnames like January, February, Maart, April etc (if it is taken from the father), and why there are no (or hardly any) white people with those surnames because the females were assimilated and were given the surnames of the husband. I have yet to meet a white Mrs November.

[Loki]

From the info I found, the females were taken into the white population and the males would have formed the Coloured population. Which would also explain why the Coloured population has slave surnames like January, February, Maart, April etc (if it is taken from the father), and why there are no (or hardly any) white people with those surnames because the females were assimilated and were given the surnames of the husband. I have yet to meet a white Mrs November.

That's not true, there was no rule regarding that. It all depended on whether a female offspring got then married again to a white person, or not.

[Loki]

I didn't know mixing was that common. I definitely do not see any SSA in most South African Whites though.

It is too low to be visible.