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Originally Posted by Bowiefan871
So even if I was into all those aforementioned aspects, I still wouldn't be an Afrikaner because I'm not a descendant of the Boers? Is being an Afrikaner really an innate thing?
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I think so, yes. If you'd grown up speaking Afrikaans as your first language I think you could call yourself an Afrikaner, but otherwise, no, I think you'd just be a South African.
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Did the apartheid government ever classify white South Africans of Slavic descent(i.e. Poles, Russians, Czechoslovakians, etc) with a particular term?
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Nope. It's almost surprising, though, because there were dozens of different racial classifications. Also, Japanese were "honorary whites" but Chinese were "non-white." It was all quite stupid, really.
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The reason I'm asking is because I'm 100% Polish by heritage and I speak the language fluently as well. There was certainly a significant Polish community in the Western Cape from what I remember. There were even Polish churches in Cape Town which I would attend for Easter.
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One of my school friends was born in Poland and grew up in Cape Town.
She and her parents emigrated to Canada in the '90s.