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War that pushed Boers to trek from S Africa to Eldoret

South African President F.W. de Klerk poses outside his office in Cape Town, South Africa March 18, 1992.

Were it not for the South African War, the Boers, whose descendants today are referred to as Afrikaners, would perhaps have not found a home in Kenya.

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