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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2773610, member: 2844&quot;]The scuffle was with the Boers, hence the name Boer Wars.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> The Dutch had exited the Cape about a century earlier, since the VOC (Dutch East India Company) was bankrupt anyway.</p><p>The Boers are people of European Protestant origin. Mostly German, French and Eastern Dutch. For example, Paul Kruger, well known Boer leader, was of Prussian origin. A more recent radical leader, Eugène Terre&#039;Blanche, was of Huguenot (French) origin.</p><p>The lingua franca of the Boers is Afrikaans, related to Dutch. Afrikaans is also spoken by the native Khoi and in the local Muslim communities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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