afrikaners are white south africans who speak afrikaans as mother tongue and follow the afrikaans culture. most of them have dutch, german, french huguenot, ancestors. also known as boere, voortrekkers and burgers, although under slightly different contexts. in south africa there are about 3 million white people with afrikaans as mother tongue, that can be assumed to be afrikaners if they chose to follow the afrikaans culture.