Editing Cape Dutch (section)

{{Short description|Historical socioeconomic group of Afrikaners in the Western Cape}}
{{About||the architectural style|Cape Dutch architecture|the language|Afrikaans}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Cape Dutch
| native_name      = {{lang|nl|Kaapsche Hollanders ([[Dutch language|Dutch]])}}
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  | image1                 = David Graaff rectangle.jpg
  | image2                 = Maria Koopmans-de Wet.jpg
  | image3                 = Sir Christoffel Brand00.jpg}}
| image_caption    = Left to right: [[Sir David Graaff, 1st Baronet]], [[Marie Koopmans-de Wet]], [[Christoffel Brand]] were all prominent Cape Dutch figures.
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| pop1             = ~250,000 (1899 estimate)<ref name="Review">{{cite magazine|last=Stead|first=W. T.|editor1-last=Fitchett|editor1-first=William Henry|editor2-last=Stead|editor2-first=Henry|editor3-last=Judkins|editor3-first=William|title=The South African Crisis|magazine=[[Review of Reviews]], Australasian Edition|location=Melbourne|publisher=The Review Printing Company|volume=15|page=635}}</ref>
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| languages        = [[Afrikaans]], [[South African English]]
| religions        = [[Calvinism]] (see [[Afrikaner Calvinism]])
| related          = [[Boers]], [[Cape Coloureds]], [[Basters]], [[Griqua people|Griquas]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]], [[Flemish people|Flemings]], 
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'''Cape Dutch''', also commonly known as '''Cape Afrikaners''', were a historic socioeconomic class of [[Afrikaners]] who lived in the [[Western Cape]] during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The terms have been evoked to describe an affluent, educated section of the [[Cape Colony]]'s Afrikaner population which did not participate in the [[Great Trek]] or the subsequent founding of the [[Boer republics]].<ref name=Gooch>{{cite book|last=Gooch|first=John|title=The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image|date=2000|pages=98–99|publisher=Routledge Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0714651019}}</ref><ref name=Worrall>{{cite book|last=Worrall|first=Dan Michael|title=The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History, Volume Two|date=2009|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1-thWE5XRmsC/page/n20 2]|publisher=Concertina Press|location=Fulshear, Texas|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1-thWE5XRmsC|isbn=978-0982599617}}</ref> Today, the Cape Dutch are credited with helping shape and promote a unique Afrikaner cultural identity through their formation of civic associations such as the [[Afrikaner Bond]], and promotion of the [[Afrikaans]] language.<ref name=Dubow>{{cite book|last=Dubow|first=Saul|title=A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820–2000|url=https://archive.org/details/commonwealthknow00dubo|url-access=limited|date=2006|pages=[https://archive.org/details/commonwealthknow00dubo/page/n17 5]–6|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0199296637}}</ref>