Cousins no more? The 1948 crisis in ties between the Netherlands and Afrikaner nationalists by Patrick Furlong

“…This study examines the roots of that rift in Dutch responses to the 1948 NP victory, the ensuing controversy, and that over appointing Otto du Plessis as envoy to The Hague. Afrikaner nationalists were as baffled by their cousins’ not understanding their wartime refusal to aid the Allies as most Dutch were by many Afrikaners’ wartime actions, discounting such criticism as misinformed and not understanding how much Nazi racial ideology made their apartheid platform toxic. …”
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Blank Verbeeld, or the incredible whiteness of being: amateur photography and afrikaner nationalist historical narrative by Marijke Du Toit

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The Berlin Mission Society and German linguistic roots of volkekunde: The background, training and Hamburg writings of Werner Eiselen, 1899-1924 by Andrew Bank

“…I track the origins of Eiselens volkekunde to his missionary background in a former Boer Republic, his Afrikaner nationalist schooling and university career, and especially to his training in African linguistics in Hamburg (and Berlin) between 1921 and 1924 under the leading international figure in the field, the German linguist and ethnologist Carl Meinhof (1857-1944), whose racially informed theories and politics profoundly shaped Eiselen and the school of volkekunde that he would father during his decade-long tenure at Stellenbosch University.…”
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The Wild <i>Volksmoeder </i>in the Forest: An Analysis of the Human-Nonhuman Relationship in Dalene Matthee’s <i>Dreamforest</i> (2003) by Delia Rabie

“…When Karoliena rejects the town’s prescript of Afrikaner nationalist volksmoeder identity, which South African theorist, Elsabé Brink (1990: 280), describes as an emulation of characteristics including a ‘sense of religion, bravery, a love of freedom, the spirit of sacrifice, self-reliance, [and] housewifeliness’, it is suggested that she opposes homogenous, monolithic racial and gender classifications. …”
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Family ties? Afrikaner nationalism, pan-Netherlandic nationalism and neo-Calvinist “Christian nationalism” by Patrick J. Furlong

“…Like volks-nationalism, Diets nationalism had a wider appeal than German national socialism, but later often took on a far right authoritarian aspect which in World War II discredited it in the Netherlands, as did Afrikaner nationalist opposition to fighting Hitler. While orthodox Dutch Calvinists moved toward a more internationalist perspective, breaking with their South African cousins over “apartheid”, “Christian nationalism” survived among Afrikaner nationalists, although looking more like volks-nationalism than anything recognizably neo-Calvinist, but neither could it meaningfully be labelled “Nazi.”…”
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Indigenous “Africans” and transnational “PanNetherlanders”: Past and present in the “re-construction” of post-1994 Afrikaner identity by Patrick J. Furlong

“…The article explores how, although in recent times the parochial and essentialist “official” Afrikaner nationalist understanding of Afrikaner “ethnogenesis” had stressed its shaping by the “original” “white” settlers’ struggles with Africans and British latecomers, denying multiracial ancestry and even downplaying broader, European (particularly Low Country) influences, a closer examination shows that that this narrower model long contended with more multicultural and transnational approaches. …”
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From fund-raising to Freedom Day: The nature of women’s general activities in the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1939-1943 by Charl Blignaut

“…Despite the evident Afrikaner nationalist and republican ideals for which the movement stood, the OB was also swept by the tide of the ideological “zeitgeist” between the two World Wars. …”
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A personal text owned by its public— changing readings of Sarah Raal’s Met die Boere in die Veld by Malgorzata Drwal

“…Consequently, the book, once an anti-British Afrikaner nationalist propaganda story, turns into a popular adventure tale about a brave Boer girl, a story about an exceptional woman, a proto-feminist who transgresses the conventional gender roles, or into a universal pacifist protest. …”
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For neither king nor swastika? Malan’s Afrikaner nationalism and De Valera’s Irish nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Patrick Furlong

“…The debate on supposed fascist influences on Afrikaner nationalists, particularly the mainstream National Party (NP), as opposed to more extremist groups, has mostly centred around alleged links or parallels with Nazi Germany, or whether anti-British sentiment was more key. …”
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Politieke koersaanduiding in <i>Koers</i>, 1933-1961 by P. de Klerk

“…The viewpoints o f Koers differed little from those of Afrikaner nationalists in general. In the years before the Second World War Koers had a stronger republican stance than the political parties to which most Afrikaners belonged. …”
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The Prince and Afrikaners: The Royal Visit of 1925 by Hilary Sapire

“…Originally proposed by the renowned South African politician and imperial statesman, Jan Smuts, the tour took place when government was led by Afrikaner nationalists and included avowed republicans. Notwithstanding lingering resentments over the South African War (1899–1902) and Boer rebellion (1914–15), the Prince’s visit was reckoned a success in softening anti-British prejudices of Afrikaners, boosting Englishspeakers’ morale, and saving South Africa for the Empire. …”
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Short-lived tolerance. An euphoria of the 1938 Voortrekker Centenary as in the editorials of a local newspaper: The George & Knysna Herald by Loraine Maritz

“…A year later, in 1939, when war broke out in Europe, Sayers loyally approved of the United Party’s decision to support the war effort in Europe on the side of the Allies and became harshly critical of Hertzog and those Afrikaners nationalists who refused to join a war on Britain’s side. …”
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An ageing anachronism: D.F. Malan as prime minister, 1948-1954 by Lindie Koorts

“…Based on the utilisation of prominent Nationalists' private documents, it traces an ageing Malan's response to a changing international context, the challenge to his leadership by a younger generation of Afrikaner nationalists and the early, haphazard implementation of the apartheid policy. …”
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