Snap!
HV did have some advantages though. He was Dutch and he grew up and was schooled in SA. I think it safe to assume he was fluent in High Dutch and Afrikaans and iirc at the time he was schooled it (pre war) would have been quite normal for any Afrikaner or Afrikaner aligned immigrant child to be instructed in High Dutch, at least at the higher levels. IIRC Afrikaans did not officially replace Dutch until the mid 1920s.
I also think it safe to assume that if one wanted to be an immigrant to SA and the predecessor states at the time his parents arrived, being Dutch would be a tremendous advantage, as opposed to being say German, Austrian or anyone else, at least to the Afrikaaner community.
Yeah, agreed. Just was nitpicking the claim that 'Boers' (which is somewhat of a pejorative term, depending on the context, not many people seem to know that), wouldn't vote for anyone who wasn't at least a third-generation South Africa. That is patently rubbish.
That said, Afrikaners have never really been that welcoming of immigrants into their community. I know lots of English-speaking South Africans whose parents are immigrants (not always British). Off the top of my head I can think of three Afrikaans friends with recent immigrant ancestry. One guy's grandfather was born in Holland, and another's stepmother was born there. Another Afrikaans friend's mother is German, although she's moved back there. He's decided to stay here though. After living in the UK, Germany, Aus, and NZ, he's decided SA is the best of all those places.
There was also quite a popular Afrikaans folk song (not sure how old it is) called
Vat jou goed en trek Ferreira. Translated this means 'Take your stuff and leave Ferreira.' Ferreira is quite a common surname among Portuguese immigrants to South Africa, so there was quite a lot of hostility towards immigrants. Not so much Western European migrants, but especially twoards those from the Med region and Southern Europe.