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By the mid-eighteenth century the Boers had penetrated almost a thousand kilometres into South Africa's interior beyond the Cape of Good Hope, at which point they encountered the , who were migrating southwards from the opposite direction.

, , 5 July 2010• Whereas Dutch uses the term van mij, van jou, van hem, van haar, van ons, van jullie.

Can we visit the city centre? In order to ensure former employees could be distinguished from workers still in the service of the company, it was decided to provide them a "letter of freedom", a licence known as a vrijbrief.

The Cape Dutch formed the backbone of the colony's market economy and included the small entrepreneurial class.

Armed forces under the leadership of General Louis Botha defeated the German forces, who were unable to put up much resistance to the overwhelming South African forces.

At the same time they were still forces to be reckoned with and engaging with them was not going to be done lightly.

This would draw a massive influx of English speaking non-Afrikaner population who wanted to be in the diamond industry not farming.

In Afrikaans, Eerste-Minister "first minister" was the official title of the before the post was abolished in 1984 and is still the official Dutch title of the , but in the Netherlands, the term premier is used as a generic term for a prime minister or equivalent office holder, the official title of the being minister-president.

The term Hollanders is similarly also used to refer to Dutch people in general, particularly in a historical context, while Hollands is used either to refer to the Dutch language or as an adjective, hence the expression die Kaap is weer Hollands "the Cape is Dutch again" to mean that things are back to normal.

Similarly, the pronoun in Afrikaans is hulle, used to mean "they" or "them", in contrast to Dutch in which ze and zij are used as plural pronouns, hence "they are the best" is hulle is die beste as opposed to ze zijn de beste, although hullie is encountered in Dutch dialects, particularly in and and.

The term Coloured came to be applied to all mixed people.

Vegetable gardens were frequently destroyed by storms, and cattle lost in raids by the Khoikhoi, who were known to the Dutch as Hottentots.