Uses
The Khoikhoi and the Boers used the Afrikaners for meat and milk and the Boers improved them to use as draft animals. It was Afrikaner oxen which drew the wagons that carried the Voortrekkers on the Great Trek.
Afrikaners have been bred into other lines used in the tropics because of their fertility, docility and greater weight gain potential.
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