in 1707 het Hendrik Biebouw uitgeroep: “Ek is ʼn Afrikaner,” in opstand teen die koloniale regering in die Kaap. Sedert Biebouw se uitroep het die Afrikaners hulle rug op Europa gedraai, met hulle gesigte na Afrika.
There is some confusion about this name as the French wiki lists it as Hendrik Bideault. The confusion is the "d" becomes a "b" in the Afrikaans spelling. I am however not too confused about the rest of the spelling as "ouw" is the Afrikaans spelling for the French "eault" or "o" sound as in "no". The name Bideault is a French name as Hendrik Biebouw / Bideault was probably of French Huguenot descent. I remember reading in the book Ces français qui ont fait l'Afrique du Sud that the first person to refer to himself as an African or Afrikaner was a person of French Huguenot decent. So Hendrik Biebouw would appear to fir the bill. Though I can not remember if he was specifically named in the book as I read it a long time ago. There were a number of French Huguenot surnames which took on a Dutch / Afrikaans spelling -like Pinard: Pienaar / Lombard: Lombaar / Villion: Viljoen / Gauch: Gouws while many retained their original spelling such as Naude / Malan / Le Grange / Marais / Joubert.
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There is some confusion about this name as the French wiki lists it as Hendrik Bideault. The confusion is the "d" becomes a "b" in the Afrikaans spelling. I am however not too confused about the rest of the spelling as "ouw" is the Afrikaans spelling for the French "eault" or "o" sound as in "no". The name Bideault is a French name as Hendrik Biebouw / Bideault was probably of French Huguenot descent. I remember reading in the book Ces français qui ont fait l'Afrique du Sud that the first person to refer to himself as an African or Afrikaner was a person of French Huguenot decent. So Hendrik Biebouw would appear to fir the bill. Though I can not remember if he was specifically named in the book as I read it a long time ago. There were a number of French Huguenot surnames which took on a Dutch / Afrikaans spelling -like Pinard: Pienaar / Lombard: Lombaar / Villion: Viljoen / Gauch: Gouws while many retained their original spelling such as Naude / Malan / Le Grange / Marais / Joubert.
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