Boerehaat is an Afrikaans word that means "ethnic hatred of Boers" or Afrikaners as they became known after the Second Boer War.[1][2] The related term Boerehater (English: "Boer-hater" or "Boer hater") has been used to describe a person who hates, prejudices or criticises Boers or Afrikaners.[3][4]
These terms were initially applied to British people perceived as prejudiced against the Boers, in the context of political conflict between the British and the Boers in southern Africa which culminated in the British defeat of the Boers in the Second Boer War. Accusations of Boerehaat have subsequently been made by numerous Afrikaner nationalists[citation needed] to exploit historical British prejudice against the Boers for political gain. They have applied the term Boerehater to anyone who criticised them or opposed their interests in the Cape Colony, including English-speaking white South Africans, dissident Afrikaners and black South Africans.[citation needed]
- ^ Hope, Christopher (9 November 1996). "Books: Hairybacks and white kaffirs". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 June 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
whenever English speakers objected to living in a racial zoo designed to protect the mythical purity of Afrikaner nationalists, they were accused by their masters of giving way to Boerehaat (hatred of the Boers)
- ^ Kent, Kelley S. (2013). "Propaganda, Public Opinion, and the Second South African Boer War". Student Pulse. 5 (10). Retrieved 19 June 2014.
After the war, the Boers became known to the world as 'Afrikaners'.
- ^ HAT. Johannesburg: Perskor. 2000. p. 104. ISBN 9780628037695.
Someone who hates Afrikaners and tries to harm or prejudice them
- ^ du Preez, Max (2004). Pale Native: Memories of a Renegade Reporter. Cape Town: Zebra Press. p. 65,143. ISBN 9781868729135.
a Boerehater, someone who hated Afrikaners