Browsing Journals by Subject "Afrikaner"
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“Better a barefoot than none”: Influences of Nationalist ideologies on girlhood in the history classroom
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)This study adopted autoethnography as a research methodology to relive and reflect on my experiences as a White Afrikaner girl in a history class during the apartheid era in South Africa. This paper focuses on how the ... -
"Die verwesenliking van 'n Afrikanerdroom": die stigting van die Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit, 1955-1968.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2010)• Summary: This article focuses on several factors that contributed to the establishment of the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). It is argued that the RAU was not primarily founded as a result of the increase in the ... -
Family ties? Afrikaner nationalism, pan-Netherlandic nationalism and neo-Calvinist "Christian nationalism"
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This study, building on longstanding debates on “German” national socialist (“Nazi”) and “Dutch” Calvinist influences on Afrikaner nationalism, examines the latter’s intersecting relationships with Dutch neo-Calvinist ... -
From “struggle” to “post-revolutionary” politics: the National Party, the African National Congress, and the "great rapprochement".
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: Die Nasionale Party as regerende party onder Suid-Afrika se apartheidsbestel, en sy langtydse teenstander en navolger, die African National Congress, blyk onwaarskynlike onderwerpe vir ‘n vergelyking: Die ... -
Indigenous "Africans" and transnational "Pan-Netherlanders": past and present in the "re-construction" of post-1994 Afrikaner identity.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article explores two strategies to “re-imagine” Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid South Africa in which white Afrikaners, once politically and culturally dominant, have become increasingly marginalized. One, ... -
“Multinational sport participation replaces apartheid sport in South Africa - 1967 - 1978”: the role of BJ Vorster and PGJ Koornhof.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The sport declarations of TE Dönges as Minister of Internal Affairs in June 1956 and those of HF Verwoerd as Prime Minister in 1965 were aimed at strengthening apartheid sport participation in South Africa. These ... -
Shifting boundaries of racial space in post-apartheid South Africa: the case of Afrikaner youth in East London
(AOSIS, 2017)South African democracy has brought about changes like freedom of associations, as opposed to apartheid which emphasised separateness of races and cultures. This social change warrants new ways of living among South Africans, ... -
War and the formation of Afrikaner nationalism
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)There is a tendency in writing histories of South Africa’s past to concentrate on the colour issue. However, doing so often leads to myths and polarisation as sources are not interrogated beyond the superficial. The ...