Cape_Dutch
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Cape Dutch, also commonly known as Cape Afrikaners, were a historic socioeconomic class of Afrikaners who lived in the Western Cape during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The terms have been evoked to describe an affluent, educated section of the Cape Colony's Afrikaner population which did not participate in the Great Trek or the subsequent founding of the Boer republics. Today, the Cape
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Kaapsche Hollanders (Dutch) | |
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Left to right: David Graaff, Marie Koopmans-de Wet, Christoffel Brand, John Gilbert Kotzé were all prominent Cape Dutch figures. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Western Cape | ~250,000 (1899 estimate) |
| Languages | |
| Dutch, Afrikaans | |
| Religion | |
| Calvinism (see Afrikaner Calvinism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Boers, Cape Coloureds, Basters, Griquas, Dutch | |
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