Afrikaner nationalism
Afrikaner nationalism (Afrikaans: Afrikanernasionalisme) is an ethnonationalist ideology originated in 19th-century South Africa among a White South African ethnic group called the Afrikaners, who descended from Dutch settlers.[1]
Overview
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Afrikaner nationalism is the idea that Afrikaners are the chosen people and that Afrikaners who speak their language should unite to fight off foreign influences from Jews, English-speaking White settlers of South Africa, Black people and Indian people.[1]
Popularity
A major proponent of the ideology was the secret group, Broederbond and the National Party (NP) that ruled the country from 1948 to 1994.[2] Other groups that supported the Afrikaner nationalist ideology included but not limited to the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Organisations (Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge , FAK), the Institute for Christian National Education (NE) and the White Workers' Protection Association (WWPA).[3]
Academic views
The historian T. Dunbar Moodie described Afrikaner nationalism as a type of civil religion that had combined the history of the Afrikaners, their language and Afrikaner Calvinism as key symbols.
Afrikaner Nationalism Media
Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch neo-Calvinist theologian
James Barry Munnik Hertzog, an Afrikaner politician who became South African prime minister
Voortrekker Monument, Afrikaner nationalistic monument in honour of the people that took part in the Great Trek. The architect Gerard Moerdijk described it as a "monument that would stand thousands of years to describe the history and the meaning of the Great Trek to its descendants".
The "Vryheidsvlag" (Freedom Flag), registered in 1995 with the South African Bureau of Heraldry as the flag of the Afrikaner Volksfront.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
- Furlong, Patrick (November 1, 2003). "Apartheid, Afrikaner nationalism and the radical Right : historical revisionism in Hermann Giliomee's The Afrikaners : review article". South African Historical Journal. 49: 207‒222. doi:10.10520/EJC93532. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- Braskén, Kasper (April 13, 2022). "South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office: Antisemitism, Anti-communism and the Surveillance of the Third Reich's International Enemies". South African Historical Journal. 74 (1: Anti-Fascism in Southern Africa): 30‒54. doi:10.1080/02582473.2022.2027005. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- Shain, Milton (2023). "Antisemitism in South Africa". The Routledge History of Antisemitism (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780429428616. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- Shain, Milton; Mendelsohn, Richard (2024). "Zionism between Afrikaner Nationalism and Apartheid". Routledge Handbook on Zionism (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781003312352. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
Zionism achieved an [...] unchallenged hegemony within South African Jewry in the early decades of the twentieth century [. ...] Jews in South African society was threatened from the 1920s by the rise of nativism and exclusivist Afrikaner nationalism [. ...] In post-Apartheid South Africa the Zionist idea has encountered a less comfortable environment.
- Kohnert, Dirk (2024). "Jews in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of South Africa, Nigeria, DR Congo and Ethiopia" (PDF). African Studies. Geneva, Switzerland: Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10903675. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- ↑ "Apartheid - Rise Of Afrikaner Nationalism". Net Industries. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- ↑ Louw, P. Eric (2004). The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 27–55. ISBN 0-275-98311-0.
