Who are the Afrikaners in South Africa and how did they acquire so much land?

Afrikaners are descendants of mainly Dutch colonialists who introduced slavery to South Africa and established apartheid as formal government policy in 1948. Despite comprising only 7% of South Africa's population, they own most of the country's private land due to eight decades of discriminatory legislation that prohibited non-whites from owning land in approximately 93% of the country. This land ownership disparity stems directly from racist laws that systematically favored white landowners while disenfranchising the Black majority population.