Question

When an armed force of these people besieged a city, Dick King rode 960 kilometers to call reinforcements after the Battle of Congella. With the command “Kill all the witches,” a group of these people was killed by Dingane (“din-GAH-nay”). These people formed two namesake republics (10[1])north of the Orange and Vaal rivers after the Great Trek. These people used a circle of ox wagons at the Battle of Blood River, under the command of Andries Pretorius, to defeat the Zulu. In 1902, the Treaty of Vereeniging (“fur-REE-nuh-hung”) marked these people’s defeat by the British in the second of two wars named for them. For 10 points, name this people formed of South Africans of Dutch descent. ■END■

ANSWER: Boers [or Afrikaners or Voortrekkers; prompt on Dutch South Africans; prompt on South Africans before mention, by asking: “What ethnic group of South Africans”?]
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