Boerestaat, noun

/ˈbuːrəstɑːt/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, boere see boere + staat state.
A proposed Afrikaner state within South Africa to accommodate those of ultra-conservative outlook; national state sense 2; volkstaat.
1985 Weekend Argus 26 Jan. 3The latest plot to ‘save’ South Africa has surfaced in print...The idea is to give the whole of Transvaal, Free State and northern Natal to the ‘Boerestaat’.
1987 Race Rel. Survey 1986 (S.A.I.R.R.) I. 140‘My people, the boeremense, are entitled to their land in South Africa.’..Mr Terre’Blanche said that Jews, Indians or any non-Christians could be permitted residence within the boundaries of the ‘boerestaat’, but would be excluded from government.
1988 Scope 6 May 32Although the core of the AWB’s being is the establishment of a ‘Boerestaat’, they realise they cannot go it alone and thus the only criteria for membership are being White and Christian.
1990 Sunday Times 4 Mar. 24The Afrikaners have only the Boerestaat as their fatherland; they have no other place to be loyal to, no other language.
1991 J. Borger in Focus on Afr. Apr.–June 31Orania was bought earlier this year by a group of Afrikaner intellectuals and businessmen. They want it to be the capital of a new Afrikaner Republic, the Boerestaat, which will take up most of Cape Province and about a third of the total area of South Africa.
A proposed Afrikaner state within South Africa to accommodate those of ultra-conservative outlook; national state sense 2; volkstaat.
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Hence Boerestater /-ˌstɑːtə(r)/ noun, one advocating the creation of such a state.
1990 Sunday Times 22 Apr. 2The militant approach of the Boerestaters was more to his liking.
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