December 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… date, December 16, holds a special significance in South African history. On this day in 1838, the Voortrekkers fought … imperialism, on the one hand, and Black Africans living in southern Africa, on the other hand. These activists did not … political means, with Jan Smuts and Louis Botha’s South African Party winning the first election to national …