DIE HOUDINGS EN KENNIS VAN DIE PLAASWERKER-GEMEENSKAP TEN OPSIGTE VAN MIV/VIGS by Corinne Strydom, Leana Noguiera, Adrie Roux

“…Ongeveer 6 miljoen Suid-Afrikaners, van wie 26% volwassenes is, sal binne die volgende ses jaar MIV-positief wees, teenoor 0,1% in 1990 (Department of Health, 2004; Pelser, 2004:14; UNAIDS, 2004). …”
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A woman of all times: A discourse-semiotic approach to André Brink’s Philida by Maryam Soltan Beyad, Hanieh Mehrmotlagh

“…Finally, not only will we discuss Brink’s views on the identities of Afrikaners and the indigenous Africans, but also we argue women’s lower discourse has initiated to elevate during the timespan from slavery to post-apartheid era.…”
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Identity politics and being a Free Stater during the South African War (1899-1902): A micro-history of the inhabitants of the greater Drakensberg region by Johan Wassermann

“…Prior to the conflict, English-speakers with strong Natal ties as Orange Free State (OFS) subjects, resided in Harrismith, while Afrikaners resided along the foothills of the Drakensberg on the Natal side, but migrated seasonally with livestock to the Free State. …”
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Determining differential item functioning and its effect on the test scores of selected pib indexes, using item response theory techniques by Pieter Schaap

“…Die Potential Index Batteries (PIB) se Engelse Woordeskat (Index 12) en Spellingtoetse (Index 22) is ten opsigte van blanke, swart en gekleurde Suid-Afrikaners ontleed. Itemresponsteorie (IRT) is gebruik om items te identifiseer wat as sydig (DIP) vir die onderskeie rassegroepe beskou kan word.…”
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Politieke koersaanduiding in <i>Koers</i>, 1933-1961 by P. de Klerk

“…The political direction of Koers, 1933-1961 The journal Koers was founded in 1933 by Afrikaner Calvinists of the Potchefstroom University College for Christian Higher Education. …”
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Examining the Role of Vocational Education and Training within Black Economic Empowerment by Jantije Xaba

“…Before 1994, vocational education and training (VET) was the foundation of apartheid industrial and social programmes to alleviate poverty, particularly amongst poor white Afrikaners. Even today, skills development remains one of the government policies used to promote economic growth and address a range of developmental problems. …”
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CV Bate, grondlegger van die Potchefstroom Herald by H.S. Gouws, Johannes D. Froneman

“…Subsequent to Bate’s retirement, his papers fell into the hands of Afrikaners who eventually transformed the Potchefstroom Herald into a predominantly Afrikaans publication. …”
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Work-related concerns of South Africans living with HIV and AIDS by Dianne Maloon, Freddie Crous, Anne Crafford

“…In die lig hiervan is ’n kwalitatiewe studie uitgevoer ten einde die werkverwante besorgdhede van swart Suid-Afrikaners met HIV en Vigs, te ondersoek. Semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude met 22 deelnemers het aan die lig gebring dat werkverwante besorgdhede moeilik, buite die konteks van algemene finansiële beperkinge en verhoudingsvraagstukke, te verstaan is. …”
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Die historisiteit van resente Afrikaanse historiese fiksie oor die Anglo-Boereoorlog by Fransjohan Pretorius

“…Themes from this war that lend themselves superbly to be woven into historical novels and short stories, are the concentration camps (where 28 000 Boer civilians died); the bitterness that plagued Afrikaners in the aftermath of the war; the pride in Boer heroism on the battlefield; important historical figures; treason that lurked in Boer ranks; the relations, usually fraught, with the British, with black people, with fellow-burghers and those with Boer women, often at an individual level. …”
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Re-reading J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands: by Elham Hossain

“…Through the portrayal of America’s war in Vietnam in the first segment of Dusklands and Afrikaner’s colonial incursions in South Africa in the second segment of the same text, Coetzee questions the versions of historical truth. …”
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Reflections on the renewed significance of Huguenot thought by Marie P. Charles

“…It is pointed out that the Afrikaner “bourgeois” people can be regarded as being perhaps the only remaining bourgeois people still in a progressive period o f their civilization. …”
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Gereformeerde Theologie in Zuid-Afrika by K. H. Groot

“…Ik leerde anders om te gaan met de Schrift en met de theologie en ik begreep beter, wat bedoeld wordt met “gereformeerde theologie”, de theologie, waar de blanke Calvinistische Afrikaners zo trots op zijn, waar ze zo veel over praten en zo weinig van weten”.…”
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South Africa’s journey to full status on the International Rugby Football Board, 1906–1958 by Wouter J. De Wet

“…Important, too, was the effect of internal politics as nationalist Afrikaners steadily gained control over white South African rugby – and the country at large – from the 1940s onward. …”
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Ouderling en Oud-Ouderling Sarel Cilliers by Piet J. Strauss

“…Apart from that the article sheds light on truthful understanding of the vow of Afrikaners at Blood River in 1838. This matter remains a point of discussion in recent times.…”
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Die Algemene Sinode van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk van 1990 en die Gelofte van 1838 by Piet J. Strauss

“…The Dutch Reformed Church as a church consisting of mainly Afrikaners, was confronted by a new societal dispensation and a new government in South Africa in and after 1994. …”
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Screening the church: A study of clergy representation in contemporary Afrikaans cinema by Shaun Joynt, Chris Broodryk

“…The church-funded CARFO or KARFO (Afrikaans Christian Filmmaking Organisation) was established in 1947, and aimed to ‘[socialise] the newly urbanized Afrikaner into a Christian urban society’ (Tomaselli 1985:25; Paleker 2009:45). …”
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Emma Renzi: Van operasangeres tot sangpedagoog: by Antoinette Olivier

“…Dit is ook van historiese belang vir Suid-Afrikaners om die nalatenskap van ‘n sanger te vereer wat tydens haar loopbaan internasionale roem verwerf het en dit haar lewenstaak gemaak het om die insigte wat sy verwerf het aan haar studente oor te dra. …”
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HIV/AIDS in South Africa: A case of failed responses because of stigmatization, discrimination and morality, 1983-1994 by Louis Grundlingh

“…Deur die "ander' (in hierdie geval die MIVA/lGS-lyer) te stigmatiseer en ook teen die persoon te diskrimineer, kon heelwat Suid-Afrikaners die lyers en die hele vraagstuk rondom MIVA/IGS ignoreer. …”
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Diakonaat en die Afrikaanssprekende AGS van SA by Marius Nel

“…Early members were generally poor, like most other Afrikaners. Yet they supported each other and helped where possible. …”
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The Contribution Of Co-Operative Education In The Growing Of Talent In South Africa: A Qualitative Phenomenological Exploration by Thomas Groenewald, Willem Schurink

“…Koöperatiewe onderwys bied, as gestruktureerde opvoedkundige strategie wat progressief akademiese leer met produktiewe werkservaring integreer, ’n geleentheid om die talent van Suid-Afrikaners op te bou. ‘Klasieke’ literatuur word weegegee ten einde die ontoereikende beoefening van koöperatiewe onderwys en ’n gepaartgaande redelike mate van weerstand aan te spreek. …”
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