Orde Boerevolk
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The Orde Boerevolk is a Boer
Liberation Political Movement, founded on 10 October 1989, advocating an independent homeland for Boers based on the old Transvaal
and Orange Free State
Republics, which lost their independence to British colonialism after the Boer War
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Boer
Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...
Liberation Political Movement, founded on 10 October 1989, advocating an independent homeland for Boers based on the old Transvaal
South African Republic
The South African Republic , often informally known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer-ruled country in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. Not to be confused with the present-day Republic of South Africa, it occupied the area later known as the South African...
and Orange Free State
Orange Free State
The Orange Free State was an independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province...
Republics, which lost their independence to British colonialism after the Boer War
Boer War
The Boer Wars were two wars fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Oranje Vrijstaat and the Republiek van Transvaal ....
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