The Boerboel breed standard has never been completely unchanging – and in that lies one of the deepest contradictions in the breed's history.When the first standards were written in the 1980s, the colors were listed as follows:
"Kleure: Geel, bruin, gestreept, witbont (behalwe swartbont)."
(English: yellow/fawn, brown, brindle, piebald – except...