Volkstaat

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A Volkstaat (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈfɔlkstɑːt], lit. 'People's State'), also called a Boerestaat, is a proposed White homeland for Boers and Afrikaners within the borders of South Africa, most commonly proposed as a fully independent Boer/Afrikaner nation. The proposed state would exclude Afrikaans-speaking Coloureds but could allow English-speaking White South Africans and other White South Africans to settle into the Afrikaner homeland if they accept Afrikaner culture and customs. Following the Great Trek of the 1830s and 1840s, Boer colonists established several Boer republics over the rest of the 19th century. The end of apartheid and the establishment of universal suffrage in South Africa in 1994 left some Afrikaners feeling disillusioned by the political changes, which resulted in a proposal for an independent Volkstaat. Several different methods have been proposed for the establishment of a Volkstaat. The geographic dispersal of minority Afrikaner communities throughout South...

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