<span>"I really do not want to go to that ceremony, Mom. Brenda's graduation doesn't matter to me. People talk too much. "It's pointless," Tommy said.
"You need to go, Tommy." Mom said. Brenda will be upset if you don't.</span>
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<span> It is believed that the first Dutch settlers came to South Africa in 1652. These settlers founded the city of Cape Town and over time developed a unique culture, language, and society, helping to form a unified Afrikaner population. Afrikaners, also formerly known as Boers, historically have been defined as those Afrikaans language-speakers of European especially Dutch descent who have inhabited Southern Africa since the 17th century.
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