Many British residents emigrated during the apartheid era leaving a vacuum in the town which was filled by mostly Afrikaner farmers who had lost interest in farming.

The incident shook the region of Afrikaner farmers, and far-right white militant groups threatened to take the law into their own hands.

Mr. Meyer, who is 46 years old, is a usually buttoned-down politician descended from a 300-year line of Afrikaner farmers.

The Smuts family were traditional Afrikaner farmers.

The sudden lack of demand destroyed prices on commodities that were profitable to many Afrikaner farmers.

The first Boskop skull was discovered in 1913 by two Afrikaner farmers digging a drainage ditch.

The other, a white man in khaki, is playing a small concertina, a instrument identified with an Afrikaner farmer.

He commended Afrikaner farmers and white educators who have extended a helping hand to poor blacks.

Losing his way in the dark, the stranger is taken in by Hattingh, an Afrikaner farmer who, with his family, is eking out a wretched existence.

The country is actively recruiting Afrikaner farmers to help revive the nation's moribund agriculture.