The mixed-race groups which developed in the early Cape Colony adopted different names for themselves, including "Bastards", "Basters", "Korana", "Oorlam" or Oorlam Afrikaners, and "Griqua". Like the Afrikaners or "Boers" as they were known in that time, many of these groups migrated inland to live beyond the reach of the British colonial administration. The word "Afrikaner" itself was originally (for over 350 years) used as a description for not white Boers but a mixed-race bastard child. It was only around 1876 that a group of Boer intellectuals, who named themselves "The fellowship of real Afrikaners", decided to use the term as a new means to describe the Boer peoples, as part of the project to create a new national identity for pioneer Boer people during the First and Second Boer Wars and for more powerful political legitimacy. Which is why today many Afrikaans-speaking white people are still known as Afrikaners, as this message was powerfully conveyed as a national identity during the times of the South African Union (1910-1961) and the apartheid years of the Republic of South Africa.