Connections
Settler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
26 ARTICLES
- Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830 Afrikaner newspapers were essential supports for Afrikaner nationalism, and from the…
- Bureau of State Security (BOSS)The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung…
- The Afrikaner BondThe Origins of the Afrikaner Bond The Afrikaner Bond, an Afrikaner political…
- The Afrikaanse HandelsinsituutThe Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut (AHI – in English the Afrikaans Commercial Institute) was…
- The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner BondIn the 1870s a series of farming associations emerged in the Cape, both in the west and…
- A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking groupVolkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, and one of…
- The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True AfrikanersThe Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (the GRA, the Fellowship of True Afrikaners) was…
- A history of Apartheid in South AfricaBackground and policy of apartheidBefore we can look at the history of the apartheid…
- The Empty Land Myth
- The Group Areas Act of 1950The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This …
- Land: dispossession, resistance and restitutionIntroduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with…
- The Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
- The Union of South Africa 1910Towards Union It is often assumed that the discovery of gold at the Rand was the…
- The Dutch SettlementThe region of the Western Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city…
- History of slavery and early colonisation in South AfricaWith colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour…
- South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla…
- The Dutch and the KhoisanThe Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) or Dutch East India Company came into being…
- Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land…
- Afrikaner Broederbond On 5 June 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called…
- Dutch Reformed Church (DRC)When the Dutch settled in South Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries they transplanted…
- National Party (NP) The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT…
- AfrikanerFrom European to "Africaander” The modern Afrikaner is descended mainly from Western…
- Second Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902'South African War ( a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) remains the most terrible and destructive…
- First Anglo Boer WarCauses of the War The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of…
- Treks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s Land is a very important commodity. It is used for farming, which provides food,…
- African nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with…