Pieterse is a Dutch and Afrikaans patronymic surname. The surname was first used in Netherlands before the colonial era. After the Dutch established a colony in the Cape of Good Hope, people with the surname Pieterse moved to the colony and as a consequence, Pieterse is a common Afrikaans surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Bosman is a Dutch and Afrikaans toponymic surname, originally meaning "man who lives or works in the forest". People with this surname include:
Venter or Venters is an Afrikaans surname, and may refer to:
Jonker is a Dutch surname. It is also a variation of the title jonkheer. The name can be occupational of origin, indicating an ancestor who was or worked for a jonkheer, or toponymical, e.g. referring to a house named De Jonker. People with the surname include:
De Beer is a Dutch and Afrikaans surname, meaning "the bear". Notable people with the surname include:
Coetzee is an Afrikaans surname. It is the tenth most common family name in South Africa.
Swart is an Afrikaans, Dutch and German surname meaning "black". Variations on it are de Swart, Swarte, de Swarte, Swarts, Zwart, de Zwart, and Zwarts. People with this surname include:
Koster is the Dutch word for sexton or verger, derived from the Latin custos.
Willemse is a Dutch patronymic surname, equivalent to English Williams and Williamson. Notable people with the surname include:
De Vink is a Dutch and Afrikaans surname, meaning "the finch". It can refer to:
Van Dyk or Vandyk is an Afrikaans toponymic meaning "from (the) dike". It can also be directly derived from the Dutch form Van Dijk.
Alberts is a Dutch and Afrikaans patronymic surname, meaning "son of Albert". Alberts is also a Latvian masculine given name, a cognate of the name Albert. People with the name Alberts include:
Smit is a Dutch occupational surname. It represents an archaic spelling of the Dutch word "smid" for "smith" and is the Dutch equivalent of the English and Scottish surname Smith.
Goosen is a common Afrikaans surname, meaning "son of Goos" ("Goswin"). Notable people with the surname include:
Janke is a name of Germanic origin.
Visagie is an Afrikaans surname of Belgian origin.
Van Niekerk is an Afrikaans surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Van Rooyen or Van Rooijen is an Afrikaans and Dutch toponymic surname. "Rooij" or "Roij" was a local term for many towns ending with "rode" or "roij", like Nistelrode, Sint-Oedenrode, Stramproy and Wanroij. This suffix itself means "a clearing made by men". Notable people with the surname include:
Burger is a West Germanic surname. It is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for 'freeman' or 'citizen' and the surname is equivalent to the English surname Burgess. In Dutch and German speaking countries it may be a toponymic surname, indicating origin from any of a number of towns ending in -burg. Notable people with the surname include:
De Bruin is a Dutch surname meaning "the brown" or "the brown one". It is common in the Netherlands. People named "de Bruin" include:
Mostert is a Dutch and Afrikaans metonymic occupational surname. Meaning "mustard", it originally referred to a mustard miller or salesman. The Middle Dutch spelling Mostaert and modern Dutch spelling Mosterd are among variant forms of the surname. People with these surnames include: