Eight days after the first bombings, a previously unknown Afrikaner group calling itself the Boer Attack Force took responsibility for them.

"It was done heartlessly," said Kobie Gouws, a white legislator in the Orange Free State who is a member of the Freedom Front, a right-wing Afrikaner group.

Similar accusations have been leveled by Indian and Afrikaner groups, who feel that they have not been dominant historically but now suffer from discrimination by the Black government.

Conflicts arose among the Xhosa, Zulu, and Afrikaner groups who competed for territory.

The Soutpansberg Chamber of Commerce, various Afrikaner groups, and political parties such as the Democratic Alliance and Freedom Front have also spoken out against the name change.

Ignatieff is also on board the ship, with aid from the captain, a Kapenaar, (resident of the Cape Viceroyalty) who belongs to a radical Afrikaner terrorist group.

The Afrikaner ethnic group, mainly composed of Afrikaans speaking South Africans of European descent (mainly Dutch, German and French)

The Dutch Reformed Church of Namibia is predominantly made up of members of the Afrikaner ethnic group.

Aggressive and patronizing questioning of black witnesses by lawyers for the Afrikaner groups bringing the suit reportedly allowed Malema to portray himself a victim of Afrikaner persecution.