Definitions for "Trekboer"
Migrant farmer, in Afrikaans; signifies participation in nineteenth-century population migrations eastward from the Cape of Good Hope. See also Boer.
The Trekboers were nomadic pastoral descendants of Dutch settlers, French Huguenot refugees, German Protestants, Frisians and smaller numbers of Belgians, Scandinavians, Scots, Irish, as well as some Indian slaves and a mixture of Khoi and Malay due to absorption into the nascent Boer nation. The Trekboers began migrating from the areas near Cape Town, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Franschhoek during the 1690s and into the expanding eastern Cape frontier throughout the 1700s.