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PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
… in the North Eastern Cape has been a pivotal point in Afrikaner: History; Culture and Religion. Many Towns in South … Anglo-Boer War. A Monument was…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… them at their own game: Rugby, the Anglo-Boer War and Afrikaner nationalism, 1899-1948,” The International Journal … them at their own game: Rugby, the…
PlaceTransvaal Province
The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed from 1910 to 1994. It's now part of the…
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… of South Africa in 1910 – where the racially motivated Afrikaner republics lost the Boer War but won the peace …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, 25 October 1996
… This University was the leading intellectual home of Afrikaner Nationalism. It was from this University that … a democratic South Africa. Tonight this one…
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… of the nearby Voortrekker Monument , at a time of growing Afrikaner Nationalism. The oldest building in the complex is …
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… deal of support among the poor whites, particularly the Afrikaner. In the subsequent elections a Pact government of …
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… site of many important events, one being the: 'March of Afrikaner Women to the Union Buildings in 1915 ', to ask for …
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… But I want to say that the survival not only of the Afrikaner, but of all the peoples of South Africa depends on … and discovered that Afrikaans was in…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
Transformations in southern Africa after 1750 Source Based Questions The following exercise has been taken from the 2012 History Grade 10 Exemplar. [1] …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… Union of South Africa in 1910 Transvaal When the Dutch or Afrikaner Boers left the Cape with the Great Trek, they moved … colony called Natal. The…
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… in our party programme, Conference Resolutions, etc., in accord with the Communist International, and this I follow. …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… of the Indian population live in KwaZulu-Natal. The Afrikaner population is especially concentrated in the …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… of the security, freedom and peaceful co-existence of the Afrikaner volk (people), the Democratic Party (DP) advocated …
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… of the South African governments existing before the Afrikaner Nationalist Party came to power in 1948. The main …
Conflict among civic organisations
… was 16 December 1982, a date that was rallying point for Afrikaner nationalists and conversely an important one for …
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… Louis Trichardt, and Potgietersrust were named after Afrikaner leaders. They became, Polokwane, Makhoda, and …
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… in 1987 and later banned. Prior to 1994 a group of Afrikaner right-wingers attempted to stage a coup in …
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Coert Steynberg and many others became an integral part of Afrikaner History and Culture. Gustav Preller died on 6 …
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… saw the new medium as a threat to Afrikaans, and to the Afrikaner volk, giving undue prominence to English, and …
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… Union of South Africa was formed bringing together former Afrikaner Republics and the Cape Colony. South Africa was …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… the significance of the 16 December in both the Afrikaner and liberation struggle traditions and to rename …
Extract from a speech during a political meeting held on 17 June 1971 at Naboomspruit in the Waterberg constituency
… as far as the future of South Africa is concerned, that Afrikaner and English speaker must understand each other. … the past, that as far as this issue is…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… leaves South Africa and goes into exile in France 1948 Afrikaner National Party, under the leadership of Daniel F. … Nations 1984 Mozambique and South Africa…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… leaves South Africa and goes into exile in France. 1948 Afrikaner National Party, under the leadership of Daniel F. … Nations 1984 Mozambique and South…
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… South Africa had come under the control of white Afrikaner nationalists in 1948. The British were told that …
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… by the Herenigde National Party largely supported by the Afrikaner community, decided the future policy of South …
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… elections in South Africa in 1994. This time the CP, PAC, Afrikaner Volksunie and the KwaZulu government took part in …
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… land conflict had become in the region. Both the Xhosa and Afrikaner farmers needed land to support themselves and their …