ern Africa and England, where they made a splash in high society.
Although people of British origin were a majority among the Whites in
Natal and on the Witwatersrand,
Afrikaners formed more than half the
white population in the region as a whole. Moreover, whereas there was a
balanced ratio of men, women, and children in the Afrikaner population,
men predominated
among the immigrants. Johannesburg,
in particular,
had a huge male adult majority in its white as well as its black population.!
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