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Anglo-African

Anglo-Africans are people of primarily Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is a geographical term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara, or those African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara....
whose first language is English

English language

British people

The British are citizenship of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants....
descent, although they can be of any ancestry, with Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
, French

French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....
Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestantism Reformed Church of France of France from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries....
, Jewish, and Italian

Italian people

The Italian people are a Southern European ethnic group located primarily in Italy and, by virtue of a wide-ranging Italian diaspora, throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia....
being rather prevalent minority ones. Most live in Southern Africa

Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, consisting of numerous territories....
.

icity is a politically loaded and historically painful topic in South Africa. While some conservative English speakers still cherish the nametag "British", others view it as an obsolete when speaking of ethnicity.

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Terminology

Ethnicity is a politically loaded and historically painful topic in South Africa. While some conservative English speakers still cherish the nametag "British", others view it as an obsolete when speaking of ethnicity. The phrase Anglo African is today used, somewhat loosely, to refer English speakers in Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. The largest number live in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
and other countries in Southern Africa - Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe , is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east....
, Namibia

Namibia

Zambia

The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
, Tanzania

Tanzania

Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south....
, Lesotho

Lesotho

Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave ? entirely surrounded by the South Africa. Formerly Basutoland, it is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations....
, and Swaziland

Swaziland

The Kingdom of Swaziland is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south, and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique....
. A sizeable number also come from Kenya

Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
in East Africa

East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN subregion, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
. A few are from Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....
in West Africa

West Africa

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
.

An early reference to Anglo African as a term for British settlers in Africa is Walter H. Wills' "The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook, 1907" which contains the details of nearly 2,000 prominent men and women of Edwardian Africa.

Unlike the Afrikaner

Afrikaner

Afrikaners are Afrikaans-speaking people who have been established in Southern Africa since the 17th century and are mainly of northwestern European ethnic groups descent....
s, Anglo African's have not constituted a coherent political or cultural entity in South Africa, hence the absence of a commonly accepted term, although 'English South African' or 'English-speaking South African' are much used.

An Afrikaans

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from Dutch language and thus classified as Low Franconian languages West Germanic languages. It is mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers living in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia, Australia, New Zealand, United States of America, Taiwa...
term for Anglo African is rooinek, which literally translates as "red neck" (derogatory depending on context ) but is not the equivalent of the American term "red neck". It arose as a nickname in the early days of settlement, as a reference to the then red collars of British military uniforms, from the red markings the British farmers put on their imported Merino breed of sheep, or to the fact they were sunburnt easily, because unlike the Afrikaners, they were new to Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, and so dressed inappropriately, i.e. wore inadequate hats, e.g. sola topees

Pith helmet

The pith helmet is a lightweight helmet made of cork or pith, typically from the sola or a similar plant , with a cloth cover, designed to shade the wearer's head from the sun....
(pith helmets), or no hat at all. This term is not related to the American

American English

PhonologyIn many ways, compared to English language in England, North American English is conservative in its phonology. Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast of the United States , partly because these areas were in contact with England, and imitated prestigious varieties of English English at a time when those varieties we...
term redneck
Redneck

Redneck refers to a person who is stereotypically Caucasian race and is of lower socio-economic status in the United States and Canada. Originally limited to the Appalachians, and later the Southern United States, this term has become widely used throughout North America, and to a lesser extent, Australia....
(a derogatory term for certain segments of rural North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
ns); the former probably refers to a sunburnt neck, while the latter North American term is derived from American history.

History

Although there were small temporary British settlements along the West Africa

West Africa

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
n coast from the 1700s onwards, British settlement in Africa began in earnest only at the end of the eighteenth century, in the Cape of Good Hope

Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headlands and bays on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa. There is a very common misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing point between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Oceans, but in fact the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres t...
.

British settlement in the Cape gained momentum following the success of the second British attempt to annex the Cape from the Dutch East India Company, and the subsequent encouragement of settlers

1820 Settlers

The 1820 Settlers were several groups or parties of white, British colonists settled by the Kingdom of Great Britain government and the Cape Colony authorities in the South African Eastern Cape in 1820....
in "Settler Country"

Albany, South Africa

Albany, South Africa was a district in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The area was known as the 'Zuurveld' by migrating Boer farmers in the late 18th century....
in the Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape is a Provinces of South Africa of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, as well as the eastern portion of the Cape Province....
in an effort to consolidate the colony's eastern border following the Cape Frontier Wars against the Xhosa

Xhosa

The Xhosa people are speakers of Bantu languages living in south-east South Africa, and in the last two centuries throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country....
.

Britain expanded the Cape Colony northwards into Khoikhoi

Khoikhoi

The Khoikhoi or Khoi, in standardised Khoekhoe/Nama language orthography spelled Khoekhoe, are a historical division of the Khoisan ethnic group, who were the native Black Africans of southwestern Africa, closely related to the Bushmen ....
and San lands. Many Britons settled in the region, but developed a culture distinct from that in Britain; a culture which had similarities to developing Australian and Afrikaner cultures. Livingstone

David Livingstone

Doctor David Livingstone was a Scotland Congregational church pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and List of explorers in Central Africa Africa....
famously explored southern Africa, and was the first European to set eyes on Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls

The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya is a waterfall situated in southern Africa on the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe....
. He is a key character in Anglo African history, being one of the first well-known Britons to believe his heart was in Africa. In the late nineteenth century, the discovery of gold

Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history....
in the Witwatersrand

Witwatersrand

The Witwatersrand is a low, sedimentary range of hills, at an elevation of 1700-1800 metres above sea-level, which runs in an east-west direction through Gauteng in South Africa....
and diamond

Diamond

In mineralogy, diamond is the Allotropes of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in an isometric-hexoctahedral crystal lattice. After graphite, diamond is the second most stable form of carbon....
s in Kimberley

Kimberley, Northern Cape

Kimberley is a city in South Africa, and the capital of the Northern Cape Province. It is located near the confluences of the Vaal River and Orange Rivers....
further encouraged colonisation by Britons, Australians, Americans and Canadians. Following the defeat of the Afrikaners after the First

First Boer War

The First Boer War also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881....
and Second

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War , commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War , the Anglo-Boer War and in Afrikaans as the Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog , was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902, between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics of the Orange Fre...
Boer Wars, Britain annexed the Boer Republics of the Transvaal

Transvaal

File:Flag of Transvaal.svgFile:Transvaal map.pngFile:Spelterini Transvaal.jpgThe Transvaal is the name of an area of northern South Africa....
and Orange Free State

Orange Free State

The Republic of the Orange Free State was an independent Boere-Afrikaner republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British Orange River Colony and a Provinces of South Africa of the Union of South Africa....
.

Cecil John Rhodes

Cecil John Rhodes

Cecil John Rhodes Doctor of Civil Law was an England-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%....
dreamt of a British Africa from Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Cape Town. It is the provincial Capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislature capital of South Africa, where the Parliament of South Africa and many government offices are located....
to Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , which means "the triumphant", is the Cairo and largest city of Egypt.It is the most populous metropolitan area in Egypt and is also one of the most populous in the world....
, and the BSAC

British South Africa Company

The British South Africa Company was established by Cecil Rhodes through the amalgamation of the Central Search Association and the Exploring Company Ltd., receiving a Royal Charter in 1889....
conquered Mashonaland, Matabeleland and some settlements further north, which became known as Rhodesia

Rhodesia

Zimbabwe

Zambia

Rhodesia

Zimbabwe

Zambia

Malawi

The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique, which surrounds it on the east, south and west....
). Simultaneously, British settlers began expansion into the fertile uplands (often called the "White Highlands

White Highlands

The term White Highlands describes an area in the Central Province, Kenya of Kenya, so-called because, during the period of British Colonialism, white immigrants settled there in considerable numbers particularly to take advantage of the good soils and growing conditions, as well as the cool climate....
") of British East Africa (now Kenya and Tanzania). With the advent of post-World War II decolonization movement, black nationalist guerrilla forces aided by Soviet expertise and weapons such as the Mao Mao in Kenya and ZANU in Zimbabwe clamored for independence. In Rhodesia, the Anglo community developed something of a fortress mentality in the 1960's and 1970's, as Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence was recognized neither by Great Britain or the Commonwealth of Nations

Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, also known as the Commonwealth or the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-three independent member states....
. After Rhodesia's independence in 1980, Anglo population declined sharply, and tens of thousands of white Zimbabwe citizens were driven off their lands and property, with many of those remaining being intimidated and threatened by the government and political and paramilitary organizations. As a result, over 2,000,000 British Africans were killed, pushed out, deported or went into exile from the original British colonies and few thousands of British settlers left during and after independence. In spite of it, in all of these colonies, a number of well connected extremely wealthy settlers remained to live following independence and the introduction of black rule in the second half of the twentieth century as the birth rate of Anglo-Africans increased.

Modern history

Following the ideological rise of anti-colonialism

Colonialism

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over Territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler or exploitation colony in which Indigenous people populations are direct rule, Population transfers, or Genocide....
throughout the Empire

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
, many British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
protectorates and colonies were granted independence.

Rhodesia

Resistance to the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
government’s adopted policy of No Independence Before Majority Rule (NIBMAR), resulted in the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI

UDI

UDI may refer to:* A Declaration of independence* In particular, Unilateral Declaration of Independence * Mexican Unidad de Inversion, Mexican currency funds unit...
) of the Rhodesia

Rhodesia

Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colonies of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent on 11 November 1965. The name was also used with the establishment of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979....
n government on 11 November 1965. The NIBMAR policy was perceived as irresponsible by supporters of the governing Rhodesian Front

Rhodesian Front

The Rhodesian Front was a political party in Southern Rhodesia when the country was under white minority rule. Led first by Winston Field, and, from 1964, by Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front was the successor to the Dominion Party, which was the main opposition party in Southern Rhodesia during the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland period....
party, led by Ian Smith

Ian Smith

Ian Douglas Smith Legion of Merit Independence Decoration served as the Prime Minister of Rhodesia of the United Kingdom self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 11 November 1965 and as the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 11 November 1965 to 1 June 1979 during white minority rule....
. Not long after UDI a protracted Bush War

Bush War

The Bush War may refer to:*The Rhodesian Bush War, a conflict in Rhodesia between the white minority government of Ian Smith and the black nationalists of the ZANU and ZAPU movements...
was fought in Rhodesia until 1979.

South Africa

Most English-speaking whites in South Africa supported the United Party

United Party (South Africa)

The United Party was South Africa ruling political party between 1934 and 1948. It was formed by a merger of most of Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog National Party with the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts, plus the remnants of the Unionist Party ....
of Jan Smuts

Jan Smuts

Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Order of Merit, Companion of Honour, Privy Counsellor, Efficiency Decoration, King's Counsel, Royal Society, Order of the Tower and Sword was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth of Nations statesman, military leader and philosopher....
, which favoured close relations with the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Commonwealth of Nations

National Party (South Africa)

The National Party was the governing party of South Africa from June 4, 1948 until May 9, 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a republic, and the promotion of Afrikaner culture....
, many of whom, like John Vorster, supported Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
during the Second World War.

Many opposed moves to make the country a republic

Republic

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch but in which the people have an impact on its government. The word originates from the Latin term res publica....
, voting "no" in the 1960 referendum

South African referendum, 1960

On October 5, 1960, South Africa's white minority government held a referendum on whether or not the then Union of South Africa should sever Personal union with the other Commonwealth realms and become a republic....
, but following the establishment of a republic in 1961 (and South Africa's consequent withdrawal) from the Commonwealth, other English-speaking whites began to support the National Party.

In spite of being perceived as more politically liberal than Afrikaner

Afrikaner

South African referendum, 1992

The South African referendum of 1992 was held on 17 March 1992 in South Africa. In it, white South Africans were asked to vote in the country's last whites-only referendum to determine whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President of South Africa F.W....
in which whites were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President

State President of South Africa

State President, or Staatspresident in Afrikaans, was South Africa's head of state from 1961 to 1994. The office was established when the country became a republic in 1961, and Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceased to be head of state....
F.W. de Klerk two years earlier, election analysts reported that support to dismantle apartheid among the Afrikaners was actually slightly higher than among English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
speakers. South Africa became fully democratic in 1994.

Efforts are being made by a few Anglo-Africans to secure minority rights. However, the majority of them, like the Afrikaner

Afrikaner

Democratic Alliance (South Africa)

The Democratic Alliance is a liberal parties South African political party, and the official opposition to the ruling African National Congress....
.

In South Africa, Anglo-African is a term which is commonly replaced by English-speaking White South African.

They constitute roughly 1/3 of the white population of South Africa, as opposed to the Afrikaners who constitute 2/3 of the white population.

Global presence

Fearful of crime and the possibility of South Africa's adopting a policy like that in Zimbabwe, a significant number of Anglo-Africans have emigrated to countries such as the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
and Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
, where many teach ESL

ESL

ESL is a common abbreviation for English as a Second Language, see English language learning and teaching.ESL may also refer to:...
. Many Anglo-Africans from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania have even settled Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest....
after the time it became a member of Commonwealth in 1992 and Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south....
which came under South African rule after the First World War.

A large number of young Anglo-Africans are taking advantage of working holiday visa

Working holiday visa

A working holiday visa is a travel permit which allows travellers to undertake employment in the country issuing the visa for the purpose of supplementing their travel funds....
s made available by the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Commonwealth of Nations

Zar

Zar may refer to:* Tsar, as an alternative spelling* Zar, an East African religious custom* Zar, a fictional character in Star Trek, see: Sybok...
) also increases the attractiveness of international experience.

Culture

Anglo Africans generally enjoy an outdoor lifestyle and fondness for sport. The braai
Braai

The word braaivleis is Afrikaans language for "roasted meat."The word braai is Afrikaans language for "barbecue" or "Roasting" and is a social custom in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia....
, although originally Afrikaans

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from Dutch language and thus classified as Low Franconian languages West Germanic languages. It is mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers living in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia, Australia, New Zealand, United States of America, Taiwa...
, is a popular way to gather friends. Another pastime is that of visiting game reserves, hiking and camping. There is a particular appreciation of country life and farms are often bought as weekend retreats. Farmers themselves generally prefer holiday houses at the coast. In other ways the culture of Anglo-Africans is more Anglo than African; afternoon tea - in fact, tea at any time of day - is still widespread as are pastimes such as gardening and reading. Families who live in the country are usually familiar with previously practical pastimes such as riding and shooting. Riding is popular in town and country alike and drag-hunting

Fox hunting

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback....
is carried out by the Cape Hunt and the Rand Hunt. Polo

Polo

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score Goal s against an opposing team. Riders score by driving a small white plastic or wooden Ball game into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet....
is more accessible in South Africa than in the United Kingdom and very popular amongst farmers. The most avidly followed (and participated in) sports are rugby

Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
, cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
and tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
. Many Anglo-Africans will follow South African as well as British news and watch BBC and Sky News

Sky News

Sky News is a rolling TV news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news. Currently broadcasting from a news centre in London, the channel provides domestic and international coverage to audiences in the UK as well as around the globe....
rather than CNN

CNN

Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
, and prefer British humor as expressed by Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by the BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC Two in 1975. Although only twelve episodes were produced , the programme has had a lasting and powerful legacy....
and the Blackadder

Blackadder

Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC One historical British sitcom, along with several List of Blackadder episodes#See also....
series. There is a widespread appreciation for British things and a certain cachet attached to British books, paints, clothes, fabric, magazines, stationary, china and toys; most Anglo-Africans travel to Britain at least once in their lives where they are likely to have many relatives and friends. Most, having been brought up on British nursery rhymes, history, and literature, are more conversant with Britain and its ways than is usually natural for people who have never lived there, or even visited.

Language

Many Anglo Africans speak a unique dialect of English. However even in South Africa there are geographical differences in the English that Anglo-Africans speak; most can clearly tell the difference between the heavier accent of Durban, Cape Town's stereotypically disdainful drawl and the near-Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation is a form of pronunciation of the English language which has long been perceived as uniquely prestigious amongst British Accent ....
of Johannesburg and the Natal Midlands. Although the South African slang listed below is true of many young South Africans it would be unusual to hear it used amongst older Anglo-Africans or people who went to private schools where it would be thought charmingly provincial and only used in jest. Anglo-Africans who use Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation is a form of pronunciation of the English language which has long been perceived as uniquely prestigious amongst British Accent ....
will generally have an aversion to excessive South Africanisms in their speech as well as for regional British accents.

There are influences from Cape Malays

Cape Malays

The Cape Malay community is an ethnic group or community in South Africa, taking its name from what is now known as the Western Cape of South Africa and the people originally from the Malay archipelago, mostly Javanese from Indonesia, who started this community in South Africa....
, Afrikaners and the Bantu languages

Bantu languages

The Bantu languages constitute a grouping belonging to the Niger-Congo languages family. This grouping is deep down in the genealogical tree of the Bantoid grouping, which in turn is deep down in the Niger-Congo tree....
. The common greeting 'Howzit!' comes from 'How is it?' and can be likened to the US 'Howdy', the Australian 'G'Day', the Irish 'Howya?' or the recent British 'All right?'. The considerable Afrikaans influence can be seen from words such as braai, trek, lekker and ja having become common usage centuries ago. In South Africa many Zulu

Zulu language

Zulu , is a language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa as well as being understood by over 50% of the population ....
and Xhosa

Xhosa language

Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately Xhosa, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a Tone , that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said with a rising or falling or high or low intonation....
words (such as shongololo

Millipede

Millipedes are arthropods that have two pairs of arthropod leg per segment . Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one....
, muti

Muti

Muti is a term for traditional medicine in Southern Africa as far north as Lake Tanganyika. The word muti is derived from the Zulu word for tree, of which the root is -thi....
, ubuntu

Ubuntu (ideology)

Ubuntu, , is an ethic or humanism philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa....
, fundi etc.) are used.

Original South African English coinages

Rhodes University

Rhodes University is a university in South Africa named after Cecil Rhodes.The university is situated in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa....
situated in Grahamstown

Grahamstown

Grahamstown is a city in the Eastern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa and is the seat of the Makana municipality. The population of greater Grahamstown, as of 2003, was 124,758....
houses the Dictionary Unit for South African English . The fourth edition of the Dictionary of South African English was released in 1991, and the Oxford Dictionary released its South African English dictionary in 2002. The English Academy of Southern Africa was founded in 1961. It is an association dedicated to promoting the effective use of English as a dynamic language in Southern Africa.

Literature

English-speaking Africans have a long literary tradition, and have produced a number of notable novel

Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
ists and poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
s, including Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire is a Zimbabwe-United Kingdom writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook....
, Guy Butler

Guy Butler (poet)

Guy Butler was a South African poet and writer.He was born and educated in the Eastern Cape town of Cradock, Eastern Cape. He attended Rhodes University and received his Master of Arts in 1938....
, Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner , was a South African author, pacifist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, which has been acclaimed for the manner it tackled the issues of its day, ranging from agnosticism to the treatment of women....
, (Ignatius) Roy(ston) Dunnachie Campbell

Roy Campbell (poet)

Roy Campbell was a South African poetry and satire. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the World War I and World War II world wars, but he is little read today....
and Denis Vincent Brutus

Dennis Brutus

Dennis Vincent Brutus is a South African poet. A graduate of the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand, Brutus was formerly on the faculty of the University of Denver and Northwestern University....
. A traditional Anglo-African storybook is Sir Percy Fitzpatrick's Jock of the Bushveld
Jock of the Bushveld

Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick. The book tells of Fitzpatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal ....
, which describes his journey as a wagondriver with his dog Jock in the Bush. Other significant writers are Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate.Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa....
, Alan Paton

Alan Paton

Alan Stewart Paton was a white South African author and liberal political activist....
, Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin...
and Cathy Buckle.

Arts

Anglo-Africans have influenced modern African arts, often incorporating other African cultures . (Harold) Athol (Lannigan) Fugard

Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in , best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of South Africa under apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood....
is a significant playwright. He was born of an Irish Catholic father and an Afrikaner mother and has always described himself as an Afrikaner, but he wrote in English to reach a larger audience. Notable Anglo-African musicians include Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews

David John Matthews is a South African-United States Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band, but he has also worked as a solo artist, and with other musicians such as Tim Reynolds and Trey Anastasio....
, who emigrated to the United States

United States

Wrex Tarr

Wrex Tarr was a Rhodesia comedian, news presenter and archer. He was most famous for his records, "Futi Chilapalapa" and "Cream of Chilapalapa"....
performed the distinctly Rhodesian

Rhodesian

Rhodesian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Rhodesia, the name adopted by a self declared state, in the then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe....
comedy song Cocky Robin based on Chilapalapa

Chilapalapa

Chilapalapa is a language spoken primarily in Zimbabwe and Zambia, where it is called 'Cikabanga', and a variant used in South Africa is called Fanagalo....
. John Edmond

John Edmond

John Edmond is a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War....
was a popular singer, songwriter, entertainer and storyteller during the Rhodesian

Rhodesian

Rhodesian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Rhodesia, the name adopted by a self declared state, in the then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe....
Bush War

Bush War

The Bush War may refer to:*The Rhodesian Bush War, a conflict in Rhodesia between the white minority government of Ian Smith and the black nationalists of the ZANU and ZAPU movements...
.

Education

Anglo-Africans and their British forebears have been extensively involved in the founding and development of numerous educational institutions across Africa.

Universities

There are four universities in South Africa that are considered to come from a "liberal" South African tradition that were established by Anglo-Africans, opposed apartheid by admitting limited numbers of black students and are now being transformed into universities for all South Africans. The South African College

South African College

The South African College was an educational institution in Cape Town, South Africa, which developed into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools ....
was founded in 1829 and later became the University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town , is a public university located on the Cecil Rhodes Estate on the slopes of Devil's Peak , in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa....
. The University of Natal

University of Natal

The University of Natal was a university in Natal Province, and later KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was founded in 1910 as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg, and expanded to include a campus in Durban in 1931....
has been merged with the University of Durban-Westville

University of Durban-Westville

The University of Durban-Westville was formerly a university situated in Westville, Durban built in the 1970s. It now forms part of the campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal....
to become the University of KwaZulu-Natal

University of KwaZulu-Natal

The University of KwaZulu-Natal or UKZN is a university with five campuses all located in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville....
. The University of Witwatersrand was originally founded in Kimberley in 1896 as the "South African School of Mines" and is now based in Johannesburg. Finally, Rhodes University

Rhodes University

Rhodes University is a university in South Africa named after Cecil Rhodes.The university is situated in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa....
was established in 1904, with an initial grant from the trustees of the Rhodes Trust.

Schools

There are two categories of schools founded by Anglo-Africans or their British missionary predecessors, those originally meant for the education of the children of Anglo-Africans and those developed or founded by Anglo-Africans for the education of the indigenous population.

The first category includes both famous Southern African independent (private) schools like Plumtree School

Plumtree School

Plumtree School is a private school boarding school for boys in the Matabeleland region of Zimbabwe on the border with Botswana. Founded in 1902 by a railway mission, its famous headmaster Robert Woodward Hammond steered it into one of the leading schools in Southern Africa....
in Matabeleland

Matabeleland

Modern day Matabeleland is a region in Zimbabwe divided into two provinces: Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South; and the Administratively separate city of Bulawayo....
, Zimbabwe, the Diocesan College

Diocesan College

The Diocesan College, or Bishops as it is more commonly known, is a private, all-boys school situated in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa....
in Cape Town

Cape Town

The Wykeham Collegiate

The Wykeham Collegiate is a private girls' boarding school situated in Clarendon, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The name is a combination of the two schools from which it was amalgamated....
in Pietermaritzburg

Pietermaritzburg

Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second largest city of the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was founded in 1838. Popularly called Maritzburg, and abbreviated PMB, it is home to a campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and is a major producer of aluminium as well as timber and dairy products....
and St John's College

St John's College (Johannesburg, South Africa)

St John's College is a Private school school for boys in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It is internationally known for its waterpolo, choir, academics and debating....
in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Joburg, is the largest city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the province Capital of Gauteng the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa....
and prestige government schools like Maritzburg College

Maritzburg College

Maritzburg College, known locally as College, is a state school high school for boys situated in the city of Pietermaritzburg, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....
in Pietermaritzburg and the King Edward VII School in Johannesburg. A feature of these schools was that the student body was initially racially segregated, however all these schools have subsequently been desegregated.

The second category of schools includes South African institutions like the Lovedale Institute

Lovedale (South Africa)

Lovedale was a mission station and educational institute in the VictoriaEast division of the Cape Province, South Africa . It lies 1720 feet above sea level on the banks of the Tyhume tributary of the Keiskama river, some 2 miles north of Alice, South Africa....
, which was responsible for the education of many famous Africans including Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mbeki

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician who served almost two terms as the second democratically elected President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008....
, Chris Hani

Chris Hani

Chris Hani, born Martin Thembisile Hani was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress ....
and Sir Seretse Khama, and St Matthew's High School. Many of these missionary institutions were seriously impacted by the Bantu Education Act

Bantu Education Act

Bantu Education Act of 1953 was a South African law which codified several aspects of the apartheid system. Its major provision was enforced Racial segregation in all educational institutions....
of 1953, and the was recently launched by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane

Njongonkulu Ndungane

The Most Reverend Njongonkulu Winston Hugh Ndungane Fellow of King's College London, was the Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa....
with the mission "to revitalise the rich heritage of the historical schools and transform them into sustainable and aspirational African institutions of educational and cultural excellence."

Sport

Rugby union

Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
, tennis

Tennis

Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
are generally considered to be the most popular sports among Anglo-Africans. The contribution of Anglo-Africans to South African rugby has continued to the present; other notables include the coach who led the Springboks

South Africa national rugby union team

The South Africa national rugby union team , are the current holders of the Rugby World Cup and are currently ranked number 2 in the IRB World Rankings....
to victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup

1995 Rugby World Cup

The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted by South Africa, and had the distinction of being the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country....
, Kitch Christie

Kitch Christie

George Moir Christie, better known as Kitch Christie , was a South African rugby union coach best known for coaching the country's national team, the South Africa national rugby union team, to victory at the 1995 Rugby World Cup....
, as well as Bobby Skinstad

Bobby Skinstad

Robert Brian Skinstad is a Rhodesian-born South African rugby union player who has represented the national team, the South Africa national rugby union team, 42 times, scoring 55 points ....
and Percy Montgomery

Percy Montgomery

Percival Colin "Percy" Montgomery is a South African rugby union footballer. He currently plays as a fullback for Western Province in South Africa's main domestic competition, the Currie Cup....
, the Springboks' all-time leader in appearances

Cap (sport)

A cap is an appearance for a select team, such as a school, county or international team in sports. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of soccer; however, the act of awarding a cap is now international and is applied to other sports....
and points. Jody Scheckter

Jody Scheckter

Jody David Scheckter is a South African former auto racing driver, the 1979 Formula One World Drivers Champion....
won the F1 World Championship, and his son Tomas Scheckter

Tomas Scheckter

Tomas Scheckter is a South African racing driver, born in Monte Carlo, currently competing in the Indy Racing League and the A1 Grand Prix series....
. Anglo-Africans have also had notable success in African rallying, while former Rhodesia in particular has produced several world champion motorcycle road racers including Jim Redman

Jim Redman

James Arthur Redman Order of the British Empire is a six-time World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle racing road racing.As a young man, he emigrated to Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia, where he began his racing career....
and Kork Ballington

Kork Ballington

Hugh Neville Ballington is a Rhodesian-born South African four-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing motorcycle road racing List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions....
.

Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
in Africa and particularly Zimbabwe has been dominated by Anglo-Africans. Many of their best players include Andy Flower

Andy Flower

Andrew "Andy" Flower was an international cricketer for Zimbabwe national cricket team and is now the assistant coach of England national cricket team....
, Heath Streak

Heath Streak

Heath Hilton Streak is a Zimbabwe cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi ....
, Brendan Taylor

Brendan Taylor

Brendan Ross Murray Taylor is a Zimbabwean cricketer....
and Ray Price

Ray Price

Ray Price may refer to:*Ray Price , an American country and western singer*Ray Price , a Zimbabwean cricketer*Ray Price , an Australian rugby league and union footballer...
. Cricket is also dominated by Anglo-Africans in South Africa. Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith

Graeme Craig Smith is a South African cricketer, and the current captain of the South African cricket team, having succeeded Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup....
, Mark Boucher

Mark Boucher

Mark Verdon Boucher is a South African cricketer. He was educated at Selborne College. He has represented Border, Africa XI cricket team, ICC World XI, Royal Challengers Bangalore of the Indian Premier League, and South African cricket team....
and Neil McKenzie

Neil McKenzie

Neil Douglas McKenzie is a South African cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman who plays for South Africa national cricket team, making his first appearance in 2000....
currently play for South Africa alongside many other White players in domestic competition.

Notables

(Alphabetically by surname)

Jani Allan
Jani Allan

Jani Allan is a former South African columnist and radio commentator. She sparked intense media attention regarding her association with right-wing political figure and interviewee Eug?ne Terre'Blanche and subsequent assassination attempt and libel suit....
(born 1953), journalist
Roy Bennett
Roy Bennett

Roy Leslie Bennett is a white Zimbabwean politician and former colonial policeman who is also a former member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for the seat of Chimanimani, where he is affectionately known as Pachedu ....
(born 1957), politician
William Boyd
William Boyd

William Boyd may refer to:*William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman*William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman...
, writer
Robert Broom
Robert Broom

Professor Robert Broom was a South African doctor and paleontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow....
, doctor and paleontologist
Cathy Buckle, author of African Tears
Guy Butler
Guy Butler (poet)

Guy Butler was a South African poet and writer.He was born and educated in the Eastern Cape town of Cradock, Eastern Cape. He attended Rhodes University and received his Master of Arts in 1938....
, poet
Rory Byrne
Rory Byrne

Rory Byrne is a South African engineer and car designer, currently Design and Development Consultant for the Scuderia Ferrari.Since joining Ferrari in 1997 Byrne designed cars have won over seventy Grand Prix motor racing races, six constructors titles and five drivers titles....
(born 1944), Formula 1 car designer
(Ignatius) Roy(ston) Dunnachie Campbell
Roy Campbell (poet)

Roy Campbell was a South African poetry and satire. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the World War I and World War II world wars, but he is little read today....
(1901-1957), poet
George "Kitch" Christie
Kitch Christie

George Moir Christie, better known as Kitch Christie , was a South African rugby union coach best known for coaching the country's national team, the South Africa national rugby union team, to victory at the 1995 Rugby World Cup....
(1940–1998), rugby coach who took the Springboks
South Africa national rugby union team

The South Africa national rugby union team , are the current holders of the Rugby World Cup and are currently ranked number 2 in the IRB World Rankings....
to victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup
1995 Rugby World Cup

The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted by South Africa, and had the distinction of being the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country....
Johnny Clegg (also known as "The White Zulu"; born 1953), musician
Kirsty Coventry
Kirsty Coventry

Kirsty Leigh Coventry is a Zimbabwean swimmer and world record holder. She attended and swam competitively for Auburn University in Alabama, in the United States....
(born 1983), swimmer
John Cranko
John Cranko

John Cyril Cranko was a choreographer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet.Cranko was born in Rustenburg in the former province of Transvaal, South Africa....
, South-African born choreographer
Kevin Curren
Kevin Curren

Kevin Melvyn Curren is a former professional tennis player. Tall and lanky with a hard, flat serve, Curren played in two Grand Slam singles finals , and won four Grand Slam doubles titles....
, tennis player
Chelsy Davy
Chelsy Davy

Chelsy Yvonne Davy was a girlfriend of Prince Harry of Wales from late 2004 to January 2009....
, Zimbabwean girlfriend of Prince Harry of Britain
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins, Royal Society#Fellowship, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom ethology, evolutionary biology and popular science author....
(born March 26, 1941), biologist, author of The God Delusion
The God Delusion

The God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, professorial fellow of New College, Oxford, and inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford....
Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin
Rufane Shaw Donkin

File:Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin.PNGSir Rufane Shaw Donkin Royal Guelphic Order Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath , United Kingdom soldier, came of a military family....
, founder of Port Elizabeth
John Edmond
John Edmond

John Edmond is a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War....
, singer, songwriter, entertainer and storyteller
Ruth First
Ruth First

Ruth First was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was killed by a letter bomb addressed specifically to her in Mozambique, where she worked in exile from South Africa....
, South African communist
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
Percy Fitzpatrick

Sir James Percy FitzPatrick was a South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He is best known for his book Jock of the Bushveld, considered a South African classic, as well as other children's books....
, transport rider, classic writer
Bruce Fordyce
Bruce Fordyce

Bruce Fordyce is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete. He is best known for having won the South African Comrades Marathon a record nine times, of which eight wins were consecutive....
, ultra-marathon runner
(Harold) Athol (Lannigan) Fugard
Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in , best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of South Africa under apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood....
, writer, actor
Lisa Fugard
Lisa Fugard

Lisa Fugard was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the only child of acclaimed playwright Athol Fugard and novelist Sheila Meiring Fugard. She moved to New York City in 1980 to pursue an acting career, and has garnered numerous stage and film roles, including Isabel Dyson in the original production of her father's My Children! My Africa!....
, writer, actor
Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Fuller is an African author."Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" is her debut book, a memoir of when she lived with her family on a farm in Rhodesia, later called Zimbabwe....
(born 1969), author of Rhodesian memoir Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
Peter Godwin (writer), Rhodesian soldier, journalist
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate.Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa....
(born 1923), novelist and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant is a British people Swaziland actor, screenwriter and film director....
(born 1957), actor
William Hamilton
William Hamilton

William Hamilton may refer to:...
(1891-1917), poet, educated at the South African College (now University of Cape Town), where he subsequently taught English and Philosophy
Emily Hobhouse
Emily Hobhouse

Emily Hobhouse was a Great Britain welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the appalling conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War....
, activist for Afrikaners in concentration camps
Trevor Immelman
Trevor Immelman

Trevor John Immelman is a South African professional golfer and winner of the 2008 Masters Tournament....
(born 1979), golfer
Glynn Isaac
Glynn Isaac

Glynn Llywelyn Isaac was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa. He has been called the most influential africanist of the last half century, and his papers on human movement and behavior are still cited in studies a quarter of a century later....
, palaeoanthropologist
Butch James
Butch James

Andrew David "Butch" James South African rugby union player. He has represented 35 times and was a member of the team that won the 2007 Rugby World Cup....
, Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok
Sid James
Sid James

Sid James was a South African actor and comedian, who made his name in a series of England sitcoms before starring in the popular Carry On films....
, actor
Sir Leander Starr Jameson
Leander Starr Jameson

Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1st Baronet, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, , also known as "Doctor Jim", "The Doctor" or "Lanner", was a United Kingdom colonial statesman who was best known for his involvement in the Jameson Raid....
, 1st Baronet, KCMG (February 9, 1853 – November 26, 1917), also known as "Doctor Jim", medical doctor and colleague of Cecil John Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes

Cecil John Rhodes Doctor of Civil Law was an England-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%....
J D Rheinalt Jones, a former director of the South African Institute of Race Relations
Sir Harry Johnston
Harry Johnston

Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. , was a United Kingdom List of explorers, botanist and Administrator of the Government, one of the key players in the "Scramble for Africa" that occurred at the end of the 19th century....
Dick King, famous transport rider
John Kirk
John Kirk

John Kirk may refer to:* John Kirk , who worked alongside David Livingstone in southern Africa.* John Kirk , awarded the Victoria Cross.* John Kirk , American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient...
, leader of Kenya settlers
Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan Archaeology and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa....
, palaeoanthropologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey , is a Kenyan politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey....
(born 1944), palaeoanthropologist and conservationist
Bernard Leeman, Tanzanian military commander
Tony Leon
Tony Leon

Anthony James Leon is a South African politician and the former leader of the Democratic Alliance , South Africa's main opposition party and former Leader of the Opposition ....
(born 1956), politician
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire is a Zimbabwe-United Kingdom writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook....
(born 1919), author
William H.C. Lloyd, Archdeacon of Durban Anglican Clergyman and cousin of Lord Lichfield and Lord Mostyn
Lucy Lloyd
Lucy Lloyd

Lucy Catherine Lloyd was the creator along with Wilhelm Bleek of the 19th century archive of |xam and !kun texts...
(b. 1834) Philologist and Explorer
Verney Lovett Cameron
Verney Lovett Cameron

Verney Lovett Cameron was an England traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross equator from sea to sea, was born at Radipole, near Weymouth, Dorset, Dorset....
, explorer
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews

David John Matthews is a South African-United States Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band, but he has also worked as a solo artist, and with other musicians such as Tim Reynolds and Trey Anastasio....
(born 1967), musician (emigrated to United States, more generally identified as American)
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Edinburgh, is a Zimbabwean-born Scottish people writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland....
(born 1948), author
Mark McNulty
Mark McNulty

Mark William McNulty is a professional professional golfer currently playing on the Champions Tour. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, and cracked the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992....
(born 1953), golfer
John Xavier Merriman
John X. Merriman

John Xavier Merriman was the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910....
, last prime minister of the Cape Colony
Percy Montgomery
Percy Montgomery

Percival Colin "Percy" Montgomery is a South African rugby union footballer. He currently plays as a fullback for Western Province in South Africa's main domestic competition, the Currie Cup....
(born 1974), rugby player and all-time scoring leader for the Springboks
Gordon Murray
Gordon Murray

Prof. Gordon Murray is a renowned designer of Formula One race cars and the famous McLaren F1 'supercar' road car....
(born 1946), Formula 1 car designer
Steve Nash
Steve Nash

Stephen John Nash, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia , is a Canada professional basketball player who plays point guard for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association ....
(born 1974), basketball player (emigrated to Canada in early childhood, more generally identified as Canadian)
Mungo Park
Mungo Park (explorer)

Mungo Park was a Scotland explorer of the African continent. He was credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River....
, explorer
Major Alan Paton
Alan Paton

Alan Stewart Paton was a white South African author and liberal political activist....
(1903-1988), author
Gary Player
Gary Player

Gary Player is a South African professional golfer generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the game's history.Player was born in Johannesburg, South Africa....
(born 1936), golfer
(Robert) Graeme Pollock
Graeme Pollock

Robert Graeme Pollock, known as Graeme, is a former cricketer. He played in 23 Test cricket for South African national cricket team and represented Transvaal cricket team and Eastern Province cricket team at domestic level....
(born 1944), cricketer
Shaun Pollock
Shaun Pollock

Shaun Maclean Pollock is a retired South African cricketer who is considered a bowling all-rounder. From 2000 to 2003 he was the captain of the South African cricket team, and also played for Africa XI, World XI, Dolphins and Warwickshire CCC....
(born 1973), cricketer
Nick Price
Nick Price

Nicholas Raymond Leige Price is a Zimbabwean professional golfer and inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-nineties, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings....
(born 1957), golfer
David Rattray
David Rattray

David Grey Rattray was a well-known historian and tour guide of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu war in South Africa.Rattray studied at the St Alban's College in Pretoria and entomology at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, where he graduated in 1982....
(1958-2007), historian
Barry Richards
Cecil John Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes

Cecil John Rhodes Doctor of Civil Law was an England-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%....
(1853-1902), businessman and politician
Jonty Rhodes
Jonty Rhodes

Jonathan Neil "Jonty" Rhodes is a former South African Test cricket and One Day International cricketer who played for the South African cricket team between 1992 and 2003....
(born 1969), cricketer
Rory Sabbatini
Rory Sabbatini

Rory Mario Trevor Sabbatini is a South African professional golfer.Rory Sabbatini was born in Durban, South Africa. He started playing golf at age 4, but concentrated on it from age 12....
(born 1976), golfer
Jody Scheckter
Jody Scheckter

Jody David Scheckter is a South African former auto racing driver, the 1979 Formula One World Drivers Champion....
(born 1950), Formula 1 World Champion 1979
Tomas Scheckter
Tomas Scheckter

Tomas Scheckter is a South African racing driver, born in Monte Carlo, currently competing in the Indy Racing League and the A1 Grand Prix series....
(born 1980), Indy Racing League and A1 Grand Prix series racing driver
Frederick Selous
Frederick Selous

Frederick Courteney Selous Distinguished Service Order was a United Kingdom List of explorers, British Army, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in south and east of Africa....
, after whom the Selous Scouts were named
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, Zulu expert
Sir Anthony Sher, actor and novelist
Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2009, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system....
(born 1973), web entrepreneur, founder of Thawte
Thawte

Thawte Consulting is a certificate authority for X.509 certificates. Thawte, , was founded in 1995 by Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa and is the second largest public CA on the Internet....
, astronaut
Sir Harry Smith, founder of Ladysmith
Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal

Ladysmith is a town in the Uthukela District Municipality District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is north-west of Durban and south of Johannesburg....
, which he named after his wife
Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID (1919-2007) Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa, and known today as Zimbabwe....
from April 13, 1964 to November 11, 1965 and the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia
Rhodesia

Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colonies of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent on 11 November 1965. The name was also used with the establishment of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979....
from November 11, 1965 to June 1, 1979
Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Addison Smith, born January 9, 1933 in Kabwe, Northern Rhodesia , is a best-selling novelist. His books often fall into one of three book series....
(born January 9, 1933), novelist
Sir Richard Southey (born 1808), Lieutenant-Governor, Colonial Secretary and Treasurer
Henry Morton Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley , Order of the Bath, born John Rowlands , was a Wales journalist and List of explorers famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone....
, colleague of Dr. Livingstone
Livingstone

Livingstone may refer to:...
Major Edwin Swales
Edwin Swales

Edwin Essery Swales Victoria Cross Distinguished Flying Cross was a South African pilot and war hero of the Second World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Victoria Cross ....
, (1915-1945), SAAF, VC DFC
Heath Streak
Heath Streak

Heath Hilton Streak is a Zimbabwe cricketer. He made his Test debut in Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan 1993/1994 making his mark by taking 8 wickets in the 2nd Test at Rawalpindi ....
, cricketer, captain of the Red Lions
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
South Africa-born author
Wrex Tarr
Wrex Tarr

Wrex Tarr was a Rhodesia comedian, news presenter and archer. He was most famous for his records, "Futi Chilapalapa" and "Cream of Chilapalapa"....
comedian
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is an Academy Award-winning South African-American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young , The Devil's Advocate , and The Cider House Rules ....
, Academy-Award winning actress is an Afrikaner
Afrikaner

Afrikaners are Afrikaans-speaking people who have been established in Southern Africa since the 17th century and are mainly of northwestern European ethnic groups descent....
often mistaken for an Anglo-African
Clem Tholet
Clem Tholet

Clem Tholet was a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War....
, folk singer, guitarist & songwriter
Phillip Tobias, anthropologist
Major Allan Wilson of the Shangani Patrol
Shangani Patrol

The Shangani Patrol was a group of white Rhodesian settlers killed in battle on the Shangani River in Matabeleland in 1893. The incident achieved a lasting, prominent place in Rhodesian colonial history and is roughly the British equivalent to Custer's Last Stand....
, the Anglo-African equivalent to Custer's Last Stand
Roger Whittaker
Roger Whittaker

Roger Whittaker is a Kenyan-born English singer/songwriter and musician with worldwide record sales of more than 55 million. His music can be described as easy listening....
, musician
Joseph Wolpe
Joseph Wolpe

Joseph Wolpe was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1915, but became an American citizen later in his life. He is best known for developing what is now called systematic desensitization....
(1915-1997), psychiatrist, born in Johannesburg and later moved to the USA

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