The British settlement in South Africa signified the violent disruption of the way of living of Southern Africans ethnics groups, especially of the Afrikaners, also called "the Boers", which means "farmers" in Dutch. With this Britain's invasion, two major wars were fought: The First (1880-81) and the Second Boer War (1899-1902).
After the devastation of these wars, and the racial violence that many Afrikaners underwent, many of them had no better option but to move to other countries. They mainly moved to Namibia and Zimbabwe. Other moved to the Netherlands, South America, Australia, and the southwestern United States.