Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… Colony encouraged immigration from Cape Town , and, in the early 1700s, independent farmers, called trekboers, began to … expansion to the north was prevalent. The Griquas , an early name for people of mixed descent, started the expansion … Afrikaners were originally low skilled, uneducated Dutch settlers that came to South Africa in search of work. Their …