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At one time, burghers denoted : those settlers who were influential in the administration, able to participate in urban affairs, and did so regularly.

The loss of Afrikaner morale prompted a 'Kultuur' [culture] campaign to promote the Afrikaans language, and lead to the establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond Brotherhood.

One of the early books was Die Geskiedenis van ons Land in die Taal van ons Volk The History of our Country in the Language of our People.

However, some aspects of Afrikaans orthography also resemble those of older forms of Dutch, for example, whereas "God be with you" in modern Dutch would be God zij met u, the Afrikaans spelling God sy met u, was also used in 18th century Dutch.

Instead, it is used in the context of other , such as , hence Amerikaanse voetbal.

" We'll deal with the gradual worsening Boer problem in Southern Africa later" was not going to be viable policy things could move from gradually worsening to suddenly worsening with an alliance.

While the Afrikaners in the Cape Colony were willing to live under a British dictatorship rather than lower their standard of living and move into the interior where the Afrikaners had greater control the British were not silly enough to think most of the Cape's population wouldn't prefer living in an Afrikaner Republic.

Similarly in Xhosa territory within a generation Afrikaners gained.

Men wear suits and ties to church.

This replaced Dutch with English as the language used in the Cape's judicial system, putting the Boers at a disadvantage, as most spoke little or no English at all.

These circuit courts were permitted to try colonists for allegations of abuse of slaves or indentured servants.