i'm going to be honest i used afrikaner to mean "white south african"
i actually considered using something different but i didn't for some reason, can't remember why
An Afrikaner is not synonymous with a white South African. I understand that 'Afrikaner' can also be shorthand for a certain kind of bigot, how ever misguided that assumption may be, but I would caution against assuming that all white South Africans are Afrikaners, and that all Afrikaners (or white South Africans) are bigots, and generally against any kind of broad ethnic stereotyping.