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ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… FN is returning to contest 2019’s polls. Prominent Afrikaner activist Dan Roodt appears to have exited the … Daniel Lotter now at the helm. The FN wants a…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… their place alongside the country’s politically dominant Afrikaner population. Some Jews also empathised with South … because they saw parallels between Nazi…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
Explain to what extent Stalin succeeded in transforming Russia into a superpower by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin’s death in 1925, after…
ArticleTswana
… as a Crown colony. By the late nineteenth century, Afrikaner and British officials had seized almost all Tswana territory, dividing it among the Cape…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… how Afrikaans women formed 'wives clubs' to support the Afrikaner cause of 'Broederbond'. Callinicos writes that as … the "transmitters of the mother tongue…
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
The Huguenot Society of South Africa was founded in 1953. The original aim of the Society was to maintain and develop the traditions, virtues and ideals of the…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… to be playful and satirical especially toward the Afrikaner sense of decorum. While he is not considered as …
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… 16 remained a rallying point for the development of Afrikaner nationalism, culture and identity. However, in 1952 …
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… his own News paper Land en Volk meaning Land and (the Afrikaner) people. Marais later went to London with the …
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
… Slabbert when he resigned in 1986. Born in Pretoria to an Afrikaner family, van Zyl Slabbert grew up in …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… to consolidate and entrench its rule. The British and Afrikaner landowners and industrialists set in motion a …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… identity into British and Dutch (or Boer, later to become Afrikaner). The division in white identity formation that … from the Cape Colony. This movement has…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… Those opposed to reforms were the Conservative Party (CP), Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) and the Reformed National …
EventSir Christoffel Joseph Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid
… with political matters, and was representative of the Afrikaner Bond. The newspaper also merged with Ons Land (Our …
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… the Herstigte National Party (HNP) and the right wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) in their turn refused to …
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… and their apartheid overlords was imminent. A group of Afrikaner right-wingers, in a bid to keep Mangope at the …
Foreword - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… to address, through a process of negotiations, the idea of Afrikaner self-determination, including the concept of a …
PlaceKatlehong
… outside South Africa. Considering the period, she was an ideal person who was well placed to market the artworks …
PlaceSudwala Caves, Nelspruit
… roof creates natural acoustics making the amphitheatre the ideal location for many spectacular concerts including the …
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… of the video game company ! The location was regarded as ideal given its situation within the well-watered valley of …
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… children were owned by the father and became part of the Afrikaner community. The practice was so common that in 1685, … there was also an element of Indian…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… paid tribute to the services I had rendered to the poor Afrikaner working women. There was nothing of the … whoever won the allegiance of the tens of…
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, was banished to the dusty Afrikaner dominated town of Brandfort in the Free State where …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… in the Cape Colony. Following the prosecution of an Afrikaner farmer by the name of Frederik Bezuidenhout, by the …
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… would not delay the passage of the act to please the Afrikaner community in the Free State and Lord Gladstone …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… children at the hands of the British. Related: The Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism …
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… language, and was thus central to the cultivation of Afrikaner Nationalism in the 20th century. Between 1919 and … Act of 1959. However, due to the…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… such as Sophiatown the resistance against the oppressive Afrikaner government steadily grew. In this trying time, … of the language barrier between the black…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… main concerns was to avoid discord between English and Afrikaner workers, in the hope of a united, white working … in 1913. The Labour Party saw the union of…
PlaceKhorixas, Town in Namibia
… today are from the Damara ethnic group. "Khorixas is the ideal town to use as a short stop over to refuel, have a … The small town of Khorixas is the ideal…