He informed the Committee that no less than 100 hundred rugby school teams would cross the oceans to play in both South Africa and Argentina in 2012. This situation signified the strong bilateral relation between the two countries in areas of sport and recreation. During the 1800s, towards the end of Anglo-Boer War, approximately 300 Afrikaners migrated and settled in Argentina. Most of these Afrikaner families were known as "de-tribalized' Afrikaners living in Argentina. Ironically, this Afrikaner grouping had rejected an offer by the government to return them to South Africa.