The Boers at the End of the World - Teaser 

Thank you dear Argentines a truly noble people, who could be the only people ever to create the noblest of dances the Tango.

​@@bretwein3793Thanks, man. But seriously, the argentinians who know about the boers think highly of you and your culture. Some of us want the government to start a program to bring boers to the Patagonia or to other regions and let them give a good use to all that virgin land we have. Who knows? Maybe they settle down, get assimilated and by 2043, Los Pumas will have won their first Rugby World Cup title thanks to Juan De Klerk and Mariano Van Den Heever, haha!

How do we make contact with the Boers? Any contact numbers?

I want to make contact with them. The boers/Afrikaners in south Africa loves them

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***** Absolutely - thank you so much. Since this is a trailer one does not have the complete picture of their circumstances but I can most certainly hear and see that they are not backwards. One gets an idea that the environment is very secluded and harsh which gives me a sense of 'distance.' And then, although they speak Afrikaans some of the words and sounds do sound 'old'. And this is all mixed with their now local language in a way that adds to the foreignness. And then in South Africa over the years the Afrikaans Boere-gemeenskap has also been dying out. We hardly see an Afrikaans boere-tannie playing the trek-klavier. How fantastic to see this. Thank you for introducing us to these members of our Afrikaans family... it brings tears to many eyes! We are all watching out for the complete movie.

***** Interesting that you say "They are a modern society in a rural setting", cos it seems that here in SA it is the opposite way around . just saying .

@Jeff VR Ofensivo, aunque tristemente cierto lo que vos decís. Aún así, el mundo en general se volvió un lugar bastante peligroso. Hoy ya no hay ningún que sea seguro.

@jeff _ en el sur no te matan villeros. Deberías salir del conurbano

We really appreciate your heartfelt invitation. It gives us heartwarming gratitude to know we have friends such as you. Los afrikaners tenemos pocos amigos en este mundo pero podemos contar a los argentinos ya Dios como los más cercanos a nuestros corazones.

Hoekom hulle het 'n Spaanse naam as jy 'n boer is?

Ek lees jou kommentaar en dis eenvoudig ongelooflik. Ek woon in Namibia op 'n plaas

munky82, I love what you're saying. I'm working with someone in Wes-afrika, and I send audio occasionally , who is learning ( en sy is lief vir die Taal) in Nigeria. There is fascination in these hardy, historical and "vol karakter" people of the land. I'll try also your suggestion, and let you know of progress & ---: finally - any who have an interest in helping with the growth of Afrikaans in West Africa, please comment below or WhatsApp: me +27845672003. (Dean) Totsiens

@Bouhammou Zakariya

@@MuNky1022 Do you hate blacks?

@@Holybatman3603 no, lol, why would I

@@MuNky1022 Most Boers despise Blacks.

hola, soy sudafricano y vivo en argentina desde chico, pero soy fiel a mis raices me gustaria contactarme con sudafricanos o decendientes para compartir tradiciones. dejo mi correo por si a alguien le interesa intercambiar ineteres en comun angelo.martins727@gmail.com

@Jeff VR they should populate the south of Chile and Argentina.

@@jackdanila9893 that would be fantastic countries to migrate to. The young leave the farms and want the big city lives. The Boers are looking for countries they can farm and do well in and produce. Argentina/Chile can only gain from their knowledge and expertise.

***** HOLY CRAP! lol you just made my day!!!!! I would love to make contact with them! PH Henning was my grandfather! Unfortunately he died before I was born and so I never met him, but apparently I have his personality haha! I will definitely ask my family! My great-grandfather's farm's name was Leeukuil and my great-great-grandfather's (JJ Henning) farm's name was Morgenzon, and he was buried there. My mother (Margarieta Paula) and other family members tried to look for his grave when she was in Argentina in 1973, but they couldn't find it. I truly wish that I can one day go there and meet everyone! I can only imagine the stories that they have to tell!

what a beautiful story I am Argentine and we are delighted of the Boers who have formed like so many other nationalities to Argentina. sorry, my English is very poor. Nicolas from Argentina

My ouma was n Henning van Argentina ,my pa en oupa terug gekom na RSA.

Wow!! What a wonderful thread!!! I’m glad I stumbled upon it

Miranda van den Heveer. I think my great grandfather might have traveled with yours to Argentina. Would love to touch base with you to compare notes

nomadic? Because they moved once they're nomadic? Guess we're all nomadic then.

nomadic is the wrong word. nomads move frequently and are used to it. these guys made one Big move which took a whole lot more effort and balls and change that a nomadic would have.

Agree to disagree Gavin. Perhaps your understanding of nomads and mine is different. The Afrikaner - a generalised notion that does not adequately capture the diverse whole - have been, and still are, nomadic in many ways having left Europe for Cape Town, CT for South Africa, Africa and the world. Interesting that, even after 100 years, there is a sense of wanting to return, to rediscover "home". As for "more effort and balls", I spent time with a nomad who walked from Nairobi to Cape Town and back - no passport, money, or support - which took a lot of guts!

nomads move often as a way of life. they don't have a home. they live everywhere. your understanding of nomadic is clearly plain wrong. 

Howard D They came from the Dutch .

hope you visit South Africa soon!!

Hallo silvana Schlebusch . My name is Anro Klopper. Does your father still live ? Email me on klopperanro@gmail.com

@Derek Chauvin I've created my own ancestry now having married a Hugenot of which two children were born to me and now a Grandchild of 4.

@Derek Chauvin true but a legacy I can leave with roots based on the culture.

+Max Banks As hy tot by my kan kom in die oos rand is verblyf en kos op die huis..... en travel...

Max Banks, I wish... do you. . . anyone know of any developments??

Hulle is deur die registers toe suid Afrika toe gevat.

Ahora entiendo la razón por que las nuevas generaciones no pueden hablar afrikáans. ¡Que lamentable! :( Les deseo que pudiereis un dia aprender la idioma de vuestros padres.

Malditos británicos siempre destrozando pueblos y armando desastres irraparables (Palestiina, Irán, Irak, Egipto, Sudán, Afghanistán, Diego García - Chagos. etc..)

Halllo ik kom van nederland, wil je me helpen met afrikaans te praten?

It is showing on showmax at the moment

African Electron, I wonder what texts they had over all these years... just.. fascinating! appreciate your post, would be very interesting terms of soliclogical development and linguists would get incredible thesis material, I reckon

Come to Brazil, white brothers. Southeast and South of the country are white Farms here have great prices and very good for agriculture

Dit sê werklik iets van daardie mense en hulle voorsate, die sterkte van hulle oortuiging en karakter. In die verre vreemde hou hulle nog vas aan hulle erfenis en praat hulle nog, al is dit nie meer so veel nie, hulle taal.

Ek het iewers gelees dat hulle in latere jare, toe die eerste vliegtuie in hulle nuwe land begin vlieg het, 'n lughawe bestempel as 'n "vliegtuigstasie". Dit is 'n baie mooi poging gewees in my opinie. Ek dink dat ons, wat agtergebly het in Suid-Afrika, eintlik 'n woord soos die Duitse "Flughafen" vertaal het om by lughawe uit te kom.

la colonia galesa actualmente es toda la provincia de chubut tambien se habla gales, hay una gran colectividad britanica en argentina, pero totalmente integrada, tambien holandeses pero no boer,

Ayesha , maybe they are safer there .

GAZ Black 100%

No , if i had the money to send them back to SA, Cape Town would be the last fucking shithole i would send them to. There are many other places which are better in SA.

is this by any chance Mrs govendor of tafelberg school?

Holland is your homeland

Amazing !! !! greetings from Argentina !! !

Koos Kombuis?

nee, dankie.

@@jeroendaem Jan F.E. Celliers.

@@Spacekriek Baie dankie!

***** Ek wonder nou weer of hulle nie ons wil vat nie!

Juan Olivier or Argentina is a place you can go if you cannot accept the way things are donr in SA now.

@@thatosebotsane8017 potholes!

@@thatosebotsane8017 do research and learn history Khoi San first than whites 1652 blacks over 100 years later to begin with read Amabhulu written by Barry Booyens

Megan, the main documentary film is still being produced. It was the short version that was completed and shown a few months ago. The full-length feature should be released in mid-2015.

Ik hoop dat we deze film binnenkort kunnen zien ! en weleens in Argentinië !

Hallo willie van der Walt. My naam is Sara De Langer, en othou dat My ma alltyd van ds. Operman ge prat het.

The largest percentage of our ancestry comes from the Dutch but also some French, German, Portuguese, Greek etc.

Ja ek myself. Ek in UK op die oomblik en daardie vars boere Afrikaans was so bietjie n skok vir my stelsel haha.

Barbarous Llama Jis bra. Jy kan bly wees jy is daardie kant. Dinge lyk nou rof die kant en die president raak ook nie slimmer nie. Ek hoop dit gaan beter daai kant al mot reën dit alewig.

This man is living in 1720

+Laiq Sayed hey sexy

Did you have your speakers on? The young lady speaks about her tattoo even.

***** So are there any more people from here in SA that might be going to make a living there ???

La Patagonia se parece más a la región de Sudáfrica dónde venían ellos aunque algo más fría claro

Incorrect. The Dutch that came here spoke Dutch and nothing else. Afrikaans evolved from Dutch, Flemish, German and became what is spoken today.

@Icicle Fledglings lol, don't be rude!!!

Yes, easily. I understood every bit of it. As far as linguistics is concerned, you could still consider Afrikaans and Dutch one and the same language. It's only in 1983 that when the then South African parliament adopted the new constitution, 'official' ties with Dutch were severed. That was a tit for tat thing. One year earlier, in 1982, the Dutch government had suspended cultural cooperation with SA because of apartheid. Until then, Afrikaans was considered to be the South African form of Dutch, with its own grammatical peculiarities, words and expressions (hence the alternative names for Afrikaans, which are Cape Dutch/Kaaps Hollands or Afro-Dutch/Afro-Nederlands). In 1994, when SA became more of a democracy, the Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union - the official body that governs the Dutch language and has the Netherlands, Flanders, Suriname and the Netherlands Antiles as its members) invited SA to join. However, since 1994 the ANC has been waging a war on Afrikaans and is doing its best to raze it from the face of the earth. Subsequently, SA did not join the language union and officially Afrikaans is left to fend for itself. Nevertheless, SA has an observer status in the language union. The union also pours a lot of money in projects to support the language. But in my opinion, Afrikaans and Dutch will further drift apart. After all, I think there is not much willingness on the Afrikaner side to keep Afrikaans more or less in line with standard Dutch, contrary to what happens in the English speaking world, where there are many different forms of the language all over the world but mutual intelligibility is also assured...

Thanks for all the imformation.. One question though, How is the relationship today between South Africa and the Netherlands? Do they even feel close considering the racist (ANC) goverment of S.A?

Official relations are good, as they are with Belgium. The Netherlands never officially interferes in the linguistic policies of a foreign nation, neither in SA, nor in Belgium (not even when Dutch was forbidden as an official language in Belgium). In both Flanders (Belgium) and the Netherlands there is a historical awareness that we share the same distant past with the Afrikaners. As I have written before, there is again cultural cooperation but it is especially on the 'intellectual' level (writers, academics). The 'common' people have more or less forgotten about each other's existence, hence the funny comments of Dutch and Afrikaans speakers in blogs that they are surprised to 'learn' that they can easily understand the other one's language. I have got to admit that the continuing extremism on the Boer side doesn't make it easy to support their otherwise just cause (defence of Afrikaans, the massive killing of Boers on their farms and the return of race laws in SA, but this time pro black and anti white/coloured). Also, Boers in general, and many Afrikaners, today still act as if Afrikaans is only spoken by whites. The truth is: the majority of its speakers is coloured (i.e. of mixed Khoi-Dutch or Malay-Dutch decent). 

Jeroen Daem Once again thank you for a informative comment. Do you think the idea of a "independent boer stat" is good/realistic? Where the boers get some land from S.A and therby create their own state, with a population of only boers/and other white people, is that a bad idea? I think it would be interesting to see how this boer state or "Afrikaaner state" would develop, and if S.A would collapse since all white people would hopefully move to the newly independent Boer state. I would want to call the state, the "independent state of the Afrikaneer".

Thremeneis Hkveineis The Boers fought very long and hard for that ideal, but also suffered greatly for it. So the enthusiasm for being atonomous once again (Orange free state, Transvaal republic) has been decreasing dramatically. I suggest you watch the documentary by Louis Theroux Its very interesting. PS in this globalized world the idea of Nation states getting a little old Look the EU for instance

@wit plaas boer orania is future , you peple .

Hmmh yes what an enriching experience that would be.

Barbarous Llama lol

ART BY JESSICA Shackleton... tooooo funny. I doubt,...., speechless 😶

Você e pardo não Branco.

Jy is reg ek het haha jammer

NWU -Noord Wes Universiteit (PUKKE)

***** Ja Eben het my fout uitgewys, ek weet nou :)

So illegals from Mexico and Central America should not be allowed into the United States as well

I prefer 1000 times a boer than a bolivian.

I am honestly so thankful that you are not the minister of Argentina dealing with immigrants, or any other country for that matter. At any rate, how would you know how they would turn out after a century unless you have some gift to see the future ? Regarding their loyalty to Argentina I have to say that, given the kind of character they display in this video (and many similar ones on YT) there is no question in my mind that they also pay their taxes and keep to the laws of their new country. If they also contribute to the economy of Argentina why would their government find any fault with them ? Given their sense of honor, dignity and culture that particular quality actually makes them more attractive for any sensible regime. The same applies to Greek, Chinese, Italian communities in the USA. They pay their dues but still honour their heritage. Eventually they might "disappear" in the bigger mass of people over the course of time. A sad thing from my perspective, sitting in South Africa and watching these Patagonian Boers, but it is the natural course of things and I'm willing to accept it. It is a rather interesting field of study, considering the effect the French Huguenots had on the later culture in the early history of colonial South Africa. They only made out about 20-25 % of the early white population but their influence in terms of wine making and the protestant religion was very strong. So, eventually, it's all about character and making your presence felt that will determine how long your people and their culture will be around.

@@argentpunisher4225 only that Bolivians are native to that land you dumb ass!

@@Spacekriek Argentina now only accept Bolivians, Paraguayans, and lately Venezuelans. Except for Venezuelans, others contribute nothing to the country, just receive plans from the government and there is an economic crisis right now. I think if people like Boers and other want to come, the government will be more than happy, also the people for they like to work it seems and Patagonia has oil and gas, a lot.