The term "Afrikaner" presently denotes the politically, culturally, and socially dominant group[REF] among white South Africans, or the Afrikaans-speaking population of Dutch origin-although their original progenitors also included Flemish, French Huguenot, and German immigrants [REF].
The first recorded instance of a colonist identifying as an "Afrikaner" occurred in March 1707, during a disturbance in Stellenbosch [REF].