boertjie

An Afrikaans speaking person living in South Africa and Namibia. The word ‘boertjie’ comes from the Dutch word for ‘farmer’ and became popular when the British were fighting with the farmers in Southern Africa, the Boer War. The ‘tjie’ is a diminutive suffix.

There is a lot of boertjies playing rugby. The boertjies have been in Africa since 1652.

boertjie

An Afrikaans speaking person that loves rugby, drinking, Christianity, farm life, hunting and being hard but fair. The word ‘boer’ comes from the Dutch word for ‘farmer’ and became popular when the British were fighting with the farmers in Southern Africa, the Boer War (Farmers War). The ‘tjie’ is a diminutive suffix.

Those boertjies love to party. There is a lot of boertjies playing for Saracens. The boertjie's English is shocking! The boertjies have been in Africa since 1652. The boertjies started making wine since 1656. The Boertjies are playing the Poms and the Kiwis next year. That boertjie has got redline all over his shirt from downing Tassies!

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Boer war

Two freedom wars fought during 1880–1881 and 1899–1902 by the British Empire against the farmers of the Transvaal Republic ( Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) and the Orange Free State in the southern part of Africa. The African republics had no armies and the farmers had to defend their countries. The word ‘Boer’ is the Dutch for ‘farmer’. Also known as the Anglo-Boer War. 27,927 Boer women and children (22,074 under 16 years old) and 14,154 black people had died in the concentration camps set up by the British Empire during the Second Boer War as part of Lord Kitchener’s scorched earth policy.

Winston Churchill was a newspaper correspondent in South Africa during the Boer War. Japie Greyling was an Anglo-Boer War hero. Jan Smuts was a Boer General during the Boer War, a British General during the First World War and a Field Marshal during the Second World War.

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Rooinek

A ‘rooinek’ (Afrikaans) or redneck (English) is a Southern Afican term for an English speaking South African or Namibian. This nickname was given to the English speaking settlers in South Africa. These new settlers (of 1820) were not use to the sun and had their necks burnt red while the earlier European Settlers (of 1652) have grown accustom to dealing with the sharp sun. This term should not be confused with the term ‘khaki’ or ‘soutpiel’ used to describe the British in South Africa during (khaki) and after (soutpiel) the Boer Wars.

That rooinek plays rugby well. That rooinek cannot braai to save his live. The rooinekke in Natal are a bunch of tough farmers.

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