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  • Boere translates as farmers in Afrikaans, the language of white South African descendants of early Dutch settlers.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

  • Boere translates as farmers in Afrikaans, the language of white South African descendants of early Dutch settlers.

    London Free Press 2010

  • The alleged boss of the so-called Boere Mafia in Gauteng was found hanged in his Johnannesburg police cell on Sunday, the investigating officer in his case said on Tuesday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Mr Maharaj, 32, was arrested on February 20 in a countrywide police swoop on members of various crime syndicates linked to the so-called Boere Mafia.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • She insisted that the mostly white, Afrikaans speaking prosecutors might be Afrikaners, but were not "Boere" and did not belong to the same nation as she and her family, "even though one might not see it from the outside".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The trade union Solidarity denied on Friday having any link with the organisation campaigning for freedom for "Boere" which met

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Those taunting the "Boere" should realise that the Afrikaner's present sense of dejection could change into unprecedented anger.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Fritz Meyer, spokesman for the group behind the initiative, said in Pretoria on Friday the "Boere lection" was aimed at setting up a leadership body to fight for the rights of "Boere" and to free them from "slavery to Azania".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • He said the "Boere" were confused, disappointed and felt they were without leadership.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • In Pretoria, the "Boere" Republican Election Commission complained that the impression had been created that the AWB was responsible for a "Boere" election to be run parallel to the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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