Talk:Cape Germans

Germans in South Africa

Howzit, all.

This article contains an incredible degree of overlap with Germans in South Africa and Cape Dutch. I do not believe it currently has enough content to stand on its own, and nearly all the content appears to be the product of original research. The term "Cape Germans" is not a particularly distinct one in South African anthropology or history; in a general sense it can mean any person of German descent in the Cape Colony and the corresponding province between 1910 and 1994. There were not only Afrikaners of German ancestry, but subsequent waves of German immigrants and their descendants such as Helen Zille, as well as former German Crimean War veterans settled there by the British to bolster the frontier against Xhosa incursions. Unlike say Cape Dutch (which was more of a class distinction that an ethnic one, anyway) I've found no indication that "Cape Germans" refers to a specific subgroup of this German demographic, specifically those settled there by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), as this article claims. At best it is a misappropriation of the term "Cape German", and at worst it is a hoax being intentionally perpetuated.

In light of all this, I recommend the article be speedily merged with Germans in South Africa for the ethnic group as a whole, where the information pertaining to these VOC-era German immigrants is already covered under that article's scope without dispute.

Thanks, --Katangais (talk) 18:48, 14 May 2017 (UTC)