Hollander, noun

/ˈhɒləndə/
Origin:
English, DutchShow more English or Dutch, Holland + -er suffix expressing the sense ‘a native of’.
A Dutch-speaking immigrant who was born in Holland, as contrasted to a Dutch- or Afrikaans-speaking South African. Also attributive. Cf. Dutchman sense 1 a.
Note:
‘Hollander’ is frequently derogatory, especially from the late 19th century onwards (Hollanders being judged to show a loyalty less secure than that of the older South African Dutch or Afrikaans community).
1699 W.A. Cowley in W. Hacke Collect. Voy. (1729) 34The Village inhabited by the Hodmandods, so called by the Hollanders.
1731 G. Medley tr. of P. Kolben’s Present State of Cape of G.H. I. 27Several..Hollanders, who had been long acquainted with Persons and Things in the several Hottentot Nations.
a1875 T. Baines Jrnl of Res. (1964) II. 169It is said that an embassy has been, or is to be, dispatched, for the purpose of getting the word Hollanders changed to ‘the Dutch African Emigrants’.
1896 Purvis & Biggs S. Afr. 74The existence of a powerful and numerous body of imported Dutchmen (usually termed Hollanders) in the South African Republic presents one of the many anachronisms with which that unfortunate Republic abounds. The Boer..is related to the Hollander by descent, yet..the Boer hates him almost as much as he does the other foreigners.
1899 J.P. Fitzpatrick Tvl from Within 287The Cape Colony Dutchmen, Hollanders, Germans, and individuals of other European nationalities associated themselves with the Boer party.
1899 J.P. Fitzpatrick Tvl from Within 330His place was filled by a Hollander official in the Mining Department.
1899 R. Devereux Side Lights on S. Afr. 79During the past few years,..many of the more prosperous Boers have sent their sons either to Bloemfontein or to Europe to be educated, and thus there has grown up a young generation, indigenous to the soil, who bitterly resent the Hollander element and its influence in the councils of State.
1924 L. Cohen Reminisc. of Jhb. 74This Dr. Leyds, of the frosty smile, was a weed that could have flourished in no other country but the Transvaal. The wily Hollander was out for money, and nothing else.
1933 S.G. Millin Rhodes (1936) 253Of course, Kruger hated the Uitlanders and did what he could to hinder them. His officials were either Boers or Hollanders.
1936 Cambridge Hist. of Brit. Empire VIII. 463Civil dissension had been created by the presence of the Dutchmen of European birth, or ‘Hollanders’, whom President Burgers had introduced, and whose advanced political and religious views conflicted with the rigid Puritanism of the old ‘Dopper’ Boers.
1965 C. Van Heyningen Orange Days 36For years we had to put up quite a number of Hollanders sent out to my father — black sheep mostly of good families — remittance men — having left Holland for the good of Holland.
1979 T. Pakenham Boer War (1982) 40They (sc. Joubert’s party) baited Kruger for giving his country away to foreigners: the plum jobs were given to the Hollanders (Dutch immigrants) who acted as the administrators and technicians of the young state.
A Dutch-speaking immigrant who was born in Holland, as contrasted to a Dutch- or Afrikaans-speaking South African. Also attributive.
Derivatives:
Hence Hollanderism  noun  nonce, the introduction of Dutch colonists as a means of securing political power.
1924 L. Cohen Reminisc. of Jhb. 70It is no wonder..that Kruger..interpreted British Liberty as meaning Boer Thraldom. It was a redoubtable phantom that kept this son of the soil awake at nights, and led him into Hollanderism.
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