Six or seven percent of Afrikaners have mixed-race ancestry
Evidence
Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of the Cape from 1692 and after whom the town and university of Stellenbosch came to be named, was the offspring of a Dutch father, himself commander of the island of Mauritius, and a mother in part Malay. The later legacy of these relationships included prominent Voortrekker and ultimately Nationalist Party leaders, the ancestors, architects, and sons of apartheid Afrikanerdom, bent on repressively excising memory of the darker side of their family heritage. The number of white Afrikaners with mixed race heritage today no doubt runs in the thousands, and has been estimated by Afrikaans demographers at about 6 or 7 percent of the ethnic group. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1321 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Max Du Preez writes that: … Just as I cannot change the colour of my skin, I cannot become an American, European or Australian. I would be an alien forever, like a polar bear in the Pretoria zoo. My soul is African. My skin colour is the only European thing about me … African/Afrikaner. I am both. I call myself after the continent twice … I am a native of this land, but unlike most other natives, I am pale. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 30 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A sizeable share of Afrikaners today carry mixed-race ancestry despite apartheid’s denial — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1321; Afrikaner identity claims African belonging through soul, not skin colour — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 30
Broader Connections
- A sizeable share of Afrikaners today carry mixed-race ancestry despite apartheid’s denial
#corroborates(0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1321 - Afrikaner identity claims African belonging through soul, not skin colour
#complicates(0.78) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 30