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Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… The first white inhabitants Between 1820 and 1826, Afrikaner trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from … from the Orange River Sovereignty and the…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… protests led by black students aimed to undermine White Afrikaner hegemony. [21] Similarly, students involved in the … movement in 2015 and 2016 aimed to…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… to book employers. TUCSA had long paid lip service to the ideal of African unions registered under the same legislation …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… became a powerful instrument in the arsenal of the White Afrikaner drive to build Afrikaner Nationalism when in 1952 it became the ‘Day of the … 16 remained…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… advantages to the Cape's colonial government. It was an ideal landing place for visitors wishing to travel into the …
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… was condemned (Sanders, 1997). With the burgeoning Afrikaner nationalist movement of the 1900s, Dutch Reform … became a major foundation of apartheid and…
English Settlement in South Africa
… as the ‘ Great Trek .’ This resulted in the founding of Afrikaner Republics away from British control such as the … 1880s, set the stage for war between the…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… than the Afrikaners. Rugby and the Springbok Symbol in Afrikaner Identity and Politics Throughout the first half of … century rugby and the Springbok symbol…
ArticleParties involved in the history of elections in South Africa
… (LP) Unionist Party (UP) Purified National Party (PNP) Afrikaner Party (AP) Progressive Party (PP) National Union …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… 1930s NUSAS was affected by the growing feeling of the Afrikaner nationalism. The Afikaanse Studentebond (A.S.B.), … for full cultural and political…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic transformed …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… in 1924. His greatest ambition was the elevation of the Afrikaner The Union government experienced internal conflict, … founder of the National Party (NP) in…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… white' problem. Urbanisation thus received another boost. Afrikaner women, like their African, Indian and Coloured … to note that as a result of the…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… played an essential part in uplifting poor whites to an Afrikaner nation fifty years later that promoted Afrikaner nationalism . [6] These schemes also…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… played a very important role in the development of Afrikaner churches and religion in the 19th and 20th centuries. Afrikaner religious activities in…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… as the volkstaal (people's language) and as a symbol of Afrikaner nationhood. Several nationalist organisations … could support and defend itself. It was…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… immanent. The representation of the ANC by government and Afrikaner and other media since its banning in 1960 had … Afrikaners together into an ineluctable…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… church has been very much bound with the politics of the Afrikaner community of South Africa. The church supported the …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the apartheid era … City, A decade of Turbulence: 1976-86,…
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… political thriller) and other films that challenged the Afrikaner establishment at a time when dissent was very …
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… with bored but stubborn indifference. By the 1920s, with Afrikaner women workers beginning to enter the labour market …
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… The British Colonial administration, having defeated the Afrikaner republics in the war, set out on a programme of … was achieved by General Hertzog, leader…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… and the Orange Free State had become independent Boer/Afrikaner republics in 1852 and 1854 respectively. The war …
ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… his farm on the site of the future Edenvale. But the Afrikaner population of Natalia never numbered more than 6 …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… colleges to represent Africans throughout the country. The Afrikaner National Party won the 1948 general election under … and economic activities of Black…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… (PAC), Federal Alliance (FA), Minority Front (MF), Afrikaner Eenheids Beweging (AEB), Azanian People’s …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… character is the hunter Allan Quartermain, Haggard's ideal of the colonial gentleman. The point of view is that of … 1974 Nadine Gordimer: The…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… grandparents were Collin Campbell van Niekerk, a White Afrikaner, and Grace, a Coloured daughter of a Zulu-speaking … grandfather, Collin Campbell "Sonny"…
The State of Art in South Africa Conference
… and essentially an extension of, Apartheid propaganda and Afrikaner Nationalism . From the Conference Proceedings it …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… Khoikhoi, San and Black Africans under the British and the Afrikaner republics were dislodged from the land. African, … and banned from owning land in urban…