| Key innovators were often British settlers, but Afrikaners, still the predominant landowners, were drawn into the commercial pastoral economy. |
| Germans and South African Afrikaners, arriving in the nineteenth century, make up most of the 6 percent of the population that is white. |
| The Boers or Afrikaners, as the descendants of the Dutch called themselves, ceded the Cape to Great Britain in an 1814 treaty. |
| Afrikaners favor a meat-and-potatoes diet that includes items such as boerewors, a sausage made of pork. |
| Britain could be seen as conquering the Transkei, and Afrikaners as decolonizing it. |
| Diamonds were found in 1867-8, in an area occupied by Griquas, Koranmas, and some Afrikaners. |
