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Frank de Boer was hit with a one-year suspension for the same positive results in June 2001, but that punishment was reduced to just over two months on appeal.
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Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 20 June 2025
In a meeting in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last week, Trump showed video evidence of hate publicly directed at Afrikaners, also known as Boers.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 25 May 2025
Post In the early 1900s, Britain was taking stock in the aftermath of the Boer Wars.
—Maxim Sytch, Harvard Business Review, 18 Apr. 2025
In 1886, British authorities in South Africa were shocked by the speed with which Boer farmers had decimated the quagga, a half-striped relative of the zebra, and tried to save the species from extinction with the Better Preservation of Game Act.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Queen Victoria created the unit in 1900 after an adviser suggested that the Irish regiments should wear shamrocks on their headdress every St. Patrick's Day as a nod to the crown's appreciation for their gallantry during the Boer War, the British Army said.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
This article was written with contributions by Natan Linder, Tulip; Enno De Boer, McKinsey & Company; Eddy Atkins, Tulip; Phil Long, McKinsey & Company; and Jonathan Hauser, McKinsey & Company
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—Natan Linder, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Then, with 90 seconds left on the clock — after Valencia had equalised again — Frank de Boer chipped the ball to Rivaldo on the edge of the box, Barcelona’s Cruyffian approximation of sticking it in the mixer.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
During the Boer War, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century—which resulted in defeat for the Afrikaners against the British and culminated in the union of South Africa, in 1910—there was this rapprochement between the Afrikaners and the British.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
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Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 20 June 2025
In a meeting in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last week, Trump showed video evidence of hate publicly directed at Afrikaners, also known as Boers.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 25 May 2025
Post In the early 1900s, Britain was taking stock in the aftermath of the Boer Wars.
—Maxim Sytch, Harvard Business Review, 18 Apr. 2025
In 1886, British authorities in South Africa were shocked by the speed with which Boer farmers had decimated the quagga, a half-striped relative of the zebra, and tried to save the species from extinction with the Better Preservation of Game Act.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Queen Victoria created the unit in 1900 after an adviser suggested that the Irish regiments should wear shamrocks on their headdress every St. Patrick's Day as a nod to the crown's appreciation for their gallantry during the Boer War, the British Army said.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
This article was written with contributions by Natan Linder, Tulip; Enno De Boer, McKinsey & Company; Eddy Atkins, Tulip; Phil Long, McKinsey & Company; and Jonathan Hauser, McKinsey & Company
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—Natan Linder, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Then, with 90 seconds left on the clock — after Valencia had equalised again — Frank de Boer chipped the ball to Rivaldo on the edge of the box, Barcelona’s Cruyffian approximation of sticking it in the mixer.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
During the Boer War, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century—which resulted in defeat for the Afrikaners against the British and culminated in the union of South Africa, in 1910—there was this rapprochement between the Afrikaners and the British.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Boer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Boer. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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