**Crazzy Auction**2007 R1Cultural Gold Coin-The Afrikaaner People

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R1 Gold Coin

Cultures of South Africa

The Afrikaaner People

1/10oz 24ct

In 1652 a small company of employees of the Dutch East India Company were settled on the southern tip of Africa in order to establish a refreshment station for the Company’s ships en route to the Far East. From this group of Dutchmen the Afrikaners were to develop. From 1688 to 1700, they were joined by about 200 French Huguenots, Protestant refugees from Catholic France. In addition, the language took on a more oriental flavour with the arrival of slaves in the Cape, primarily of Malay extraction, but also from other eastern regions and nearby African islands including Madagascar. The original Koi inhabitants as well as the Xhosa and the Zulu people all contributed to the language as it spoken today.

In 1795, the British took over the Cape. Between 1824 and 1838, a number of Boers (as Afrikaans-speaking farmers were known), discontent with British rule, trekked deep into the interior with the purpose of establishing independent republics far from the interfering reach of the British colonial authorities in the Cape. Two major Boer republics came into being, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

The reverse of the R1 cultural coin for 2007 reflects the WH Coetzer painting entitled “Vir jou Suid-Afrika”, which depicts the “Trekker” leader Louis Tregardt crossing the Drakensberg and is currently hanging on the western side of the Cenotaph Hall at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria.