White farmers in South Africa mostly descend from Dutch and British colonists starting in the 1600s, later joined by European immigrants like Greeks and Norwegians. They got the farms through colonial settlement and apartheid policies that favored whites, often displacing black communities. Land reform since 1994 has aimed to return land to black South Africans, but white farmers still hold about 61 million hectares—50% of the country’s surface. History’s messy, and so is the land question.