Question

Belgian settlers in south africa were known as boers- true or false

Answer 1

Answer: False

Boer is a Dutch term meaning 'peasant', this how the settlers of Dutch origin in South Africa and Namibia and their descendants were called, although they were also called Afrikaners.

This ethnic group of Dutch origin was mainly characterized by carrying out tasks of mainly agrarian character, speaking the Afrikaans language (derived from Dutch) and practicing the Calvinist Christian religion.

It should be noted that this community had its origin in the Dutch colonization of the Buena Esperanza Cape area, which began in the mid-seventeenth century and led to a slow but steady immigration in southern Africa of European settlers from the Netherlands.