What if they never trekked north and conquered/settled all the areas that they did?
How would the colonization of South Africa proceed?
What is the POD though?
You either have to have no British settlement of the Cape, or some reason why the Boers can't trek inland.
Piet Retief said:2. We complain of the severe losses which we have been forced to sustain by the emancipation of our slaves, and the vexatious laws which have been enacted respecting them.
They'll get culturally and legally drowned in new English settlers and control. Whatever vestiges remain will be totally removed after the various gold and diamond rushes.