South African Argentines are Argentine citizens of South African descent or

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

n-born people residing in Argentina. South African immigration to Argentina (also referred to as "Boer Colonization in Argentina") is the settlement of people from South Africa in Argentina, mainly by

Afrikaners Afrikaners () are a South African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th and 18th centuries.Entry: Cape Colony. ''Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Cas ...

. This settlement began from 4 June 1902 onwards. Most of them (including a handful of coloured servants) settled in

Chubut Province Chubut ( es, Provincia del Chubut, ; cy, Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes rang ...

, southern Argentina. The main cities where they settled was Sarmiento in Chubut. South African settlers who arrived in Argentina, were entirely of

Boer Boers ( ; af, Boere ()) are the descendants of the Dutch-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled this are ...

origin. Today the

Afrikaans Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gra ...

language remains, although is only spoken by around 300 people.''Crónicas del Centenario, 1901 - 2001''; Crónica, Comodoro Rivadavia This South American country was chosen by many South Africans to emigrate because of facilities to settle.

History

Between 1902 and 1907/08 about 600 to 650 Boer settlers came to Argentina. These Boers were descendants of Dutch and French settlers of South Africa (also called Afrikaners). They came mostly from the

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and

Orange Free State The Orange Free State ( nl, Oranje Vrijstaat; af, Oranje-Vrystaat;) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeat ...

. Most left South Africa following the Second Anglo-Boer War as many had lost their farms in the war or regarded themselves as

Bittereinder The ''Bittereinders'' () or irreconcilables were a faction of Boer guerrilla fighters, resisting the forces of the British Empire in the later stages of the Second Boer War (1899–1902). By September 1900, the conventional forces of the So ...

s who felt they could not live under a British government. To migrate to the Argentine Patagonia region, the settlers sent two representatives to Comodoro Rivadavia ( Louis Baumann and Camillo Ricchiardi), Chubut Province, to manage the establishment of the new colony. They were greeted by Francisco Pietrobelli, with whom toured the region, and called for the government land. They came on

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cargo ships with bullock carts (ox wagons) and the national government provided them mules and tents. The distribution of land was authorized by then President

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and the Minister of Agriculture, Wenceslao Escalante, who was honoured with the name of the colony and, later, the department where it is located.

Notable people

* Emanuel Ntaka (born 1977), pop singer and activist

References

{{South African diaspora Chubut Province

History

Notable people

See also

Further reading

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