Editing Cape Dutch (section)

==Demographics==
The Cape Dutch population was predominantly urban and concentrated around Cape Town and various settlements in the Western Cape's interior.<ref name=Afrikaners/> Cape Dutch settlement and migration patterns in the nineteenth century tended to reflect those of British colonists.<ref name=Royle>{{cite book|last=Royle|first=Trevor|title=War Report: The War Correspondent's View of Battle from Crimea to the Falklands|date=1987|pages=10–30|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|location=Edinburgh|isbn=978-1851580644}}</ref> Unlike the Boers, Cape Dutch emigrants were most likely to settle in other British territories in southern Africa, namely [[Southern Rhodesia]] and the [[Colony of Natal]].<ref name=Royle/> During the late 1800s smaller numbers found employment in one of the Boer republics, the [[Orange Free State]], where they were in high demand due to their education and technical skills.<ref name=Afrikaners/> At one point all the civil servants and teachers residing in the Orange Free State were Dutch expatriates or Cape Dutch.<ref name=Afrikaners/> Not all the Boer leaders were receptive to the idea of employing Cape Dutch, whom they regarded as foreigners; for example, [[Paul Kruger]] discouraged Cape Dutch immigration to the [[South African Republic|Transvaal Republic]], because he feared they would compete with the Boers for jobs.<ref name=Afrikaners/>

Since the Cape Colony's census never differentiated between individual segments of the Dutch- or Afrikaans-speaking white population, the historic size of the Cape Dutch community is almost impossible to accurately calculate.<ref name=census1865>{{cite book|title=Census of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 1865|date = 7 July 1866|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0074071051;view=1up;seq=35|publisher=HathiTrust Digital Library|access-date=26 December 2013|page=11}}</ref> It was estimated at 250,000 people in 1899.<ref name="Review"/>