From a recent Daily Maverick article: In a remote corner of Patagonia, a community exists to whom Sarie Marais is a familiar ditty and melktert is sold in the local café. They are the descendants of Afrikaners who travelled across the ocean to Argentina around 1903, lured by the prospect of land and a new life away from the hated British. In 1965, a Sunday Times journalist wrote that in this area, more Afrikaans than Spanish is heard in the shops. Today only a handful of the Patagonian Boers remain who can understand Afrikaans. A Cape Town filmmaker is determined to document their world in an upcoming film titled The Boers at the end of the world. Here is a teaser.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 08:09:35 +0000
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