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• Academia - Coming to terms with the past and the present: Afrikaner experience of and reaction to the “new” South Africa
• National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa
• BBC - Future - Is Afrikaans in danger of dying out?
• GlobalSecurity.org - Afrikaners
• Joshua Project - Afrikaner
• South African History Online - Afrikaner

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• National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa
• BBC - Future - Is Afrikaans in danger of dying out?
• GlobalSecurity.org - Afrikaners
• Joshua Project - Afrikaner
• South African History Online - Afrikaner

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Stephanus Jacobus du Toit

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Boer

Afrikaner, a South African of European descent whose native language is Afrikaans. They are descendants of the Boers. See Boer.