Afrikaner
noun
Af·ri·ka·ner
ˌa-fri-ˈkä-nər 
often attributive
: a South African of European descent whose native language is Afrikaans
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The fall of South African apartheid In 1948, the white-nationalist Afrikaner National Party was elected to run South Africa, a country that had already been controlled by a colonial white minority government.
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Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
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Afrikaner
noun
Af·ri·ka·ner
ˌaf-ri-ˈkän-ər
: a person born in South Africa whose native language is Afrikaans and whose ancestors were from Europe
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