AHC: Polygamy practiced among white African populations

Another group that might possibly have adopted polygamy could have been the Voortrekkers. Maybe, if there was no gold in Witwatersrand and the British had basically said "Good riddance."

I doubt the highly calvinist Boers are going to go polygamist for no reason
 
I doubt the highly calvinist Boers are going to go polygamist for no reason

The Dutch of the Cape Colony was de facto polygynists, what we need are that it's made de jure before the Voortrekkers migrate. Maybe VOC see a benefit in increasing the local labour pool by legalising and it's integrated into the local culture. Honestly the result will not be more White South Afrians, but a larger multiracial Afrikaan ethnicity develop, where Coloured will be seen as a integrated part of it. A much large Afrikaans speaking population will likely push new immigrants to adopt Afrikaans rather than English. So the result could be that English end up only spoken by a small minority (but still being prestigeous think OTL Malta), while Afrikaans push the local native African language out too.
 
The Dutch of the Cape Colony was de facto polygynists, what we need are that it's made de jure before the Voortrekkers migrate. Maybe VOC see a benefit in increasing the local labour pool by legalising and it's integrated into the local culture. Honestly the result will not be more White South Afrians, but a larger multiracial Afrikaan ethnicity develop, where Coloured will be seen as a integrated part of it. A much large Afrikaans speaking population will likely push new immigrants to adopt Afrikaans rather than English. So the result could be that English end up only spoken by a small minority (but still being prestigeous think OTL Malta), while Afrikaans push the local native African language out too.
I've seen over 150+ DNA profiles, not a single Afrikaner is 100% European.
 
I've seen over 150+ DNA profiles, not a single Afrikaner is 100% European.

So what?

The Afrikaans are White, because we recognise them as White, not because they can document that all their ancestors came from Europe. I'm talking about the Afrikaans turning into a group where a significant number of members have visible sign of African (or Asian) ancestry.
 
Would they have to stay Calvinists? Who's to say a new religious movement couldn't have developed and spread amongst them?

"The trekkers had a strong Calvinist faith. But when the time came for them to leave they found that no Dutch Reformed Church minister from the Cape was prepared to accompany the expedition, for the church synod opposed the emigration, saying it would lead to 'godlessness and a decline of civilisation'. So the trekkers were forced to rely on the ministrations of the American Daniel Lindley, the Wesleyan missionary James Archbell, and a non-ordained minister, Erasmus Smit." http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/great-trek-1835-1846

Room for a P.O.D. there?
 
So what?

The Afrikaans are White, because we recognise them as White, not because they can document that all their ancestors came from Europe. I'm talking about the Afrikaans turning into a group where a significant number of members have visible sign of African (or Asian) ancestry.
That's what I am saying, their family was considered Afrikaner while having a phenotype that harkened back to Africa and/or Asia. The second governor was part Indian. It's about maintaining flexibility rather than forming flexibility.
 
That's what I am saying, their family was considered Afrikaner while having a phenotype that harkened back to Africa and/or Asia. The second governor was part Indian. It's about maintaining flexibility rather than forming flexibility.

Of course the early colony was more flexible, but what I'm talking about is creating so large a biracial group by the English takeover, tha the Cape Dutch aren't split by race. In OTL it made sense to create this split, but if 2/3-2/4 of the inhabitants of Cape had been Coloured Dutch, I doubt the split would have possible for the British and Afrikaans would simply have been a description of all Cape Dutch speakers no matter race.
 
Of course the early colony was more flexible, but what I'm talking about is creating so large a biracial group by the English takeover, tha the Cape Dutch aren't split by race. In OTL it made sense to create this split, but if 2/3-2/4 of the inhabitants of Cape had been Coloured Dutch, I doubt the split would have possible for the British and Afrikaans would simply have been a description of all Cape Dutch speakers no matter race.

OTL coloured were arguably around the same population of whites, included the Malagasy mixed race (of whome made the bulk of african slaves) and you have a mixed race majority.

Afrikaners at the time of British takeover sought to retain privileges and deny rights such as the ability to sue for natives
 
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