Jester wrote: No when the Afrikaners showed up on the Cape and in Natal, as Dutch colonists, they settled peacefully. They displaced noone. Like today's Patagonia or Australia it was sparsely populated, just roving nomadic Bushmen coming through.
This is an oft-quoted lie of the Apartheid government, there were black people on the Cape when the Dutch sailed there. In fact, the Dutch settlers mated with the local women to produce the first 'Cape Coloureds' not surprising when you think the Cape is the most bountiful and fertile land on the whole continent, why wouldn't there be black people there? It is ridiculous to think that this extremely pleasant and fertile land was empty of civilisation.
The Afrikaners and their language came through a mixture of Dutch, Germans and the French over a period of two hundered years - Afrikaners did not discover South Africa.