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From: "Kammie" <>
Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] Anglo-Boer War migration waves-Afrikaner Diaspora
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 08:13:38 +0200

Hi SA HISTORY list participants

This is a X-posting
ATTENTION Anglo Boer War boffins, please note the three waves of Afrikaner
migrations across the globe as described below.

Kammie
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> > Date: 28 June 2002
> > From: Brian M. du Toit
> > < >
> >
> > After the Anglo-Boer war large numbers of Boers in concentration camps
> > could not (if they had been citizens of Natal or the Cape Province they
> > had committed treason by joining the Boers) or would not (if they
> > refused to lay down their arms and accept British authority) return to
> > South Africa. Some were allowed back to clear up their affairs and get
> > out.
> >
> > The result was a number of major emigrations.
>>1]The largest group went to
> > Argentina (see: Brian M. du Toit: COLONIA BOER,AN AFRIKANER SETTLEMENT
> > IN CHUBUT, ARGENTINA. Lewiston, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995).
>>2]A second
> > significant group went north into East Africa (see: Brian M. du Toit:
> > THE BOERS IN EAST AFRICA, ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY. Westport, Bergen &
> > Garvey, 1998).
>>3]The smallest group, and those among whom the least of a
> > community was maintained, came to North America, and among their leaders
> > was Ben Viljoen (see: Brian M. du Toit: BOER SETTLERS IN THE SOUTHWEST.
> > El Paso, Texas Western Press, 1995)**.
>>4]There is another group that
> > planned an aborted settlement at Tamaulipas in Mexico - I am currently
> > working on that material and hope to complete it soon. I have also been
> > invited to present the keynote address in January at the history
> > conference of the South African Academy of Arts and Sciences. This
> > address will deal with AFRIKANER DIASPORA (some theoretical stuff, some
> > historical overview, and some current data I am analyzing from a study
> > of the current emigration of Afrikaners in New Zealand - thus "the
> > second diaspora" if there is such an animal).
> >
> > ** It is here that you will find reference to Viljoen, the Mexican
> > Revolution (p. 62) and the Yaqui (p. 64), and other roles he performed.
>

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