South African President Jacob Zuma commented in 2009 on Afrikaners being "the only white tribe in a black continent or outside of Europe which is truly African", and said that "of all the white groups that are in South Africa, it is only the Afrikaners that are truly South Africans in the true sense of the word."
在2009年，時任南非總統雅各布·祖馬評論說，阿非利卡人是“在歐洲大陸或歐洲以外唯一的白人部落，是真正的非洲人”，並說“在南非的所有白人群體中，只有阿非利卡人是真正意義上的南非人。