The Creation of the Boer Identity: The Truth about the Boer Heritge

by Wiets Buys

When looking at their genes, Boers and Afrikaners are more similar to the Yoruba people from Nigeria than to Bantu speakers from south-eastern Africa. This is because the southern and eastern Bantu speakers were not living in the Cape region when the ethnicity was being formed.[63]

From 1820, English and Scottish schoolmasters were introduced. A language proclamation in 1822 declared English as the exclusive official language in government offices from 1 January 1825, even though very few Boers could speak English at the time.[277]