Pretoria, April 25, 2025 (AFP) - Trump spotlight divides S.Africa's Afrikaners

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2025-04-25
Country music and the aroma of pancakes enveloped the "Boeremark", or farmer's market, outside South Africa's capital Pretoria where thousands of Afrikaners browsed on a recent Saturday morning. Signs written in Afrikaans advertised traditional foods: braided "koeksister" doughnuts, cinnamon-sprinkled "melkkos" porridge, strips of "biltong" cured meat. There were stands of books in Afrikaans, a language linked to Dutch, and racks of khaki clothes......
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