History Main / AmoralAfrikaner

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[[NonIndicativeName Despite the title,]] this trope isn't only for Afrikaners (Dutch South Africans). It's possible for Rooineks (British South Africans) to be just as nasty, and Rhodesians (white [[UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}} Zimbabweans]]) and white Namibians also show up. For native black South Africans (such as those of Xhosa or Zulu descent) who you don't want to mess with, see BadassNative and ScaryBlackMan.

** Danny Archer, Leonardo [=DiCaprio=]'s character, isn't technically South African (he's from Rhodesia, pre-revolutionary Zimbabwe), but served in the South African military, and is only slightly more heroic than the people he's fighting until the very end.

* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' and ''Comicbook/BlackPanther'' villain Ulysses Klaw grew up in Belgium, but later {{retcon}}s have his ancestor as a member of the Voortrekkers, whose failure to conquer Wakanda led to him returning to Belgium in disgrace. Even though Klaw himself is not an Afrikaaner, the implications of a guy with a Flemish accent repeatedly attempting to pillage an African country are pretty clear.

* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' and ''Comicbook/BlackPanther'' villain Ulysses Klaw grew up in Belgium, but later {{retcons}} have his ancestor as a member of the Voortrekkers, whose failure to conquer Wakanda led to him returning to Belgium in disgrace. Even though Klaw himself is not an Afrikaaner, the implications of a guy with a Flemish accent repeatedly attempting to pillage an African country are pretty clear.

* In the 1979 miniseries ''Franchise/{{Quatermass}}'', set in a grim, dystopian near-future Britain, the UK's police services have been disbanded and replaced by the Contract Police, or 'pay cops', a force comprised of overly aggressive and not-very-bright mercenaries. The novelization of the story makes it clear that they are almost exclusively white South Africans and the ones heard speaking in the TV series have Afrikaner accents.
* ''Series/SpittingImage'' made fun of this archetype with the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CqdrbWVg_M I've Never Met A Nice South African]]". The producers of the show would go on to [[SincerityMode justify the song]] on the basis that it was necessary to show moderate South Africans just how much the rest of the world disapproved of apartheid.
--> Nah, he's [[FunetikAksent niver mit a noice Seth Efrikan]]\\
And thet's not bladdy surprosin', min\\
'cos we're a bunch of errigant bostards\\
Who hate black people.

[[NonIndicativeName Despite the title,]] this trope isn't only for Afrikaners (Dutch South Africans). It's possible for Rooineks (British South Africans) to be just as nasty, and Rhodesians (white Zimbabweans) and white Namibians also show up. For native black South Africans (such as those of Xhosa or Zulu descent) who you don't want to mess with, see BadassNative and ScaryBlackMan.

* The folk singer Bok van Blerk has created music celebrating [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlHqKJyo3GQ the Second Boer War]], music celebrating [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJrGfTQH5HY the fighting spirit of the Afrikaaner]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL6vLPdvqe0 music remembering the border wars]] of TheSeventies and TheEighties. Van Blerk has seriously worried the post-Mandela ANC government, who have restricted or banned broadcast of many of his songs on TV and radio.

* In the original ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]]'' comics, Scrooge's nemesis Flintheart Glomgold is portrayed as a South African Boer (the Ducktales version made him Scottish). He is essentially a more ruthless version of Scrooge himself, and is willing to murder people and feed the corpses to the jackals in order to achieve his goals.

So with South Africa's history of apartheid and mercenaries, this created the archetype of a shady, greedy, and corrupt villain who is often involved in military-related activities. Going back even further, the Boers (Dutch settlers in South Africa) fought a pair of unsuccessful uprisings against the ruling British Empire in the late 19th century, during which time the Boers [[TropeNamers coined the word]] "commando" (and during which time the British made use of concentration camps). Needless to say, there's a long tradition of brutal warfare in South Africa.

* The folk singer Bok van Blerk has created music celebrating [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlHqKJyo3GQ UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar]], music celebrating [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJrGfTQH5HY the fighting spirit of the Afrikaaner]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL6vLPdvqe0 music remembering the border wars]] of TheSeventies and TheEighties. Van Blerk has seriously worried the post-Mandela ANC government, who have restricted or banned broadcast of many of his songs on TV and radio.