Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr. Und.) any member of the S.Afr. security forces, whether in the services, the police force or the prison department.

1973		P. Driscoll Wilby Conspiracy (1991) 42: The fat Boer is hurt pretty bad.
1974		H. Levin Bandiet 8: Warders are known, among bandiete, as boere – singular boer. The term is generic for all warders, whatever language they speak [...] Boere dislike being called boere.
1980		A. Dangor ‘Waiting for Leila’ Waiting for Leila (2001) 55: Help him, the policeman had pleaded. [...] He is one of us. A Boere seun.
1981		C. Hope Separate Development 155: I got my pants down, Harry, when the boere smash through the door and haul me off to the big hotel. What timing, what rhythm these fat cats got!
1997		P.-D. Uys No Space on Long Street (2000) 6: In the 70s we were free to do what we wanted, man, in spite of the boere and the laws. [...] Ja, breaking the laws gives you good horn, hey? You pomped up against a parked Cortina.
2005		A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 54: Nobody wanted to risk slipping out and breaking into a kafee right next door to a boere station!
2008		A. Lovejoy ‘The Smell of Tears’ at www.acidalex.com 🌐 3: They were the ones who stupidly ditched it during a raid by the Metro boere.