Afrikaans whites remain the city majority even after apartheid’s end.

Evidence

In Bloemfontein city, Afrikaans whites are still in a numerical majority. Of the 111,000 residents 72,000 (65 percent) are white, and 89 percent of these white residents report Afrikaans as their mother-tongue. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 48

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Afrikaner grievance identity persisted after displacement by reattaching to whiteness rather than dissolving. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 187

Broader Connections