The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

Beginning in 2005, portions of the African National Congress wished to change the name of the city to match the name of the Tshwane municipality, however this met with stiff opposition, particularly from Afrikaner civil rights groups and political parties since it denies the history of the city as founded by Pretorius.

General Constand Viljoen is a former chief of the South African Defence Force, who, as a leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront, sent 1500 of his militiamen to prop up the government of Lucas Mangope and to contest the termination of Bophuthatswana as a homeland in 1994.

The film itself received generally favorable reviews, and DiCaprio was praised for the authenticity of his South African Afrikaner accent, known as a difficult accent to imitate.

Between the end of the 18th century and the end of the 20th century, these people increasingly considered themselves Afrikaner ( originally meaning simply " African ") rather than European.

There were thus now three Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa — the Afrikaner Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk ( the Cape Synod ), the Boer Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk, which was the State Church of the South African Republic, and the Boer Gereformeerde Kerk, the smallest of the three, led by Rev.

Voortrekker ' Uncle ' Paul Kruger, first president of the South African Republic upon its reacquired independence after the brief British annexation, adopted the Calvinstic principles in its political form, and formulated the Boer cultural mandate based on the Afrikaner Calvinist conviction that the South Africans had a special calling from God, not unlike the people of Israel in the Bible.

After the four South African colonies united politically into the Union of South Africa and relinquished control to democratic elections, a small, anonymous group of young intellectuals called the Afrikaner Broederbond, formed in the years following the Second Anglo-Boer War to discuss strategies for addressing the overwhelming social problem of poor whites and other Afrikaner interests.

In 1895, with two other chiefs from neighboring tribes, Khama traveled to Britain to lobby Victoria of the United Kingdom for protection from the dual pressures of Cecil Rhodes ' British South African Company – located in what was later to become Rhodesia to the north – and the Afrikaner settlers creeping up from the south.

To solidify their dominance of South African politics, the Afrikaners united to form the South African Party, a new pan-South African Afrikaner party.

General Constand Viljoen, an Afrikaner who served as Chief of the South African Defence Force, sent 1, 500 of his militiamen to protect Lucas Mangope and to contest the termination of Bophuthatswana as a homeland in 1994.

* Afrikaner Broederbond, the South African secret society from 1918 – 1994

The chief vehicle of Afrikaner nationalism at this time was the " Purified National Party " of D. F. Malan, which broke away from the National Party when the latter merged with Smuts ' South African Party in 1934.

Category: South African people of Afrikaner descent

* Radio RSA: The Voice of South Africa ( former service of Apartheid-era South African Broadcasting Corporation ): Afrikaner folk tune, " Ver in die Wereld, Kittie " (" Where in the world, Kitty ").

Andre Brink was the first Afrikaner writer to be banned by the government after he released the novel A Dry White Season about a white South African who discovers the truth about a black friend who dies in police custody.

First elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha was for eleven years head of the Afrikaner National Party and the South African government.

The Freedom Front Plus ( FF +; Afrikaans: Vryheidsfront Plus, VF +) is a South African political party that aims to protect Afrikaner interests.

Between 1948 and 1994, all prominent figures of South African political life, including all leaders of the government were members of the Afrikaner Broederbond.

* Eugène Terre ' Blanche ( 1941-2010 ), former South African political figure and founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging

Abram Louis Fischer, commonly known as Bram Fischer, ( 23 April 1908 Bloemfontein – 8 May 1975 Bloemfontein ) was a South African lawyer of Afrikaner descent, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial.

Jansen was a founder member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ( the " South African Academy for Science and Art ") in 1909, of the Saamwerk-Unie (" Co-operation Union ") in 1917, of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (" Federation of Afrikaner Cultural Associations ") in 1929, and of the Voortrekkers ( the Afrikaner equivalent of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides ) in 1930, and was master of ceremonies at the laying of the foundation stone of the Voortrekker Monument in 1938 and at its dedication in 1949.

Hertzog and his followers in the Orange Free State province subsequently moved to establish the National Party to oppose the government by advocating a " two-stream " policy of equal rights for the English and Afrikaner communities.

: This page refers to the Afrikaner Broederbond.

The British placed all power — legislative, executive, administrative — in English and Afrikaner hands.

Under the apartheid era, the Afrikaner National Party moved to weaken the judiciary in favor of Dutch-inherited civil law, a stronger legislature and juries of elected officials, all dominated by the National Party.

Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and managing director of the British South Africa Company, was eager to extend British dominion to all of South Africa, and encouraged the disenfranchised Uitlanders of the Boer republics to resist Afrikaner domination.

Afrikaner nationalists were not at all deterred by the relinquishment of Commonwealth membership, for they regarded the Commonwealth as little more than the British Empire in disguise.

The Freedom Front Plus wish to represent the voice of the Afrikaner in all spheres of government.

According to the 2001 census there are 847 white South Africans living in town of Steynsrus ( 71. 1 %), almost all of Afrikaner background.

While liberal in his views on questions of race, Young did not share Rose ’ s passion for all things British and the paper used its influence to try to bring about greater unity between English-and Afrikaans-speakers, characterised by support for a new national flag and a much more accepting attitude towards Hertzog and Afrikaner aspirations.

When founded, the HNP emphasised above all its Afrikaner identity, attacking immigration, seeking to downgrade the importance of the English language, and endorsing apartheid.

The party reject the concept of a Volkstaat, claiming all of South Africa for the Afrikaner instead.

“ Let me add, too, that I speak as a white Afrikaner, from a family of farmers, people who themselves lost farms they owned in Africa, and with my own profound empathy for all people who live off the land in South Africa ,” replied Behr.

The Boers spoke Afrikaans, a language or dialect derived from Dutch, and no longer called themselves Boers but Afrikaner.

Most of these originally settled in the Cape Colony, but have since been quickly absorbed into the Afrikaner and Afrikaans population, thanks to sharing a similar religion to the Dutch colonists, and there are now many Afrikaners with French surnames given Afrikaans pronunciation.

Afrikaner Calvinism is, according to theory, a unique cultural development that combined the Calvinist religion with the political aspirations of the white Afrikaans speaking people of South Africa.

In 2007 an Afrikaans song about Boer War general Koos de la Rey by Bok van Blerk became a hit amid fierce debate on whether it represented a call to arms for the reinstatement of Afrikaner rule or just expressed cultural nostalgia.

It also saw the new medium as a threat to Afrikaans and the Afrikaner volk, giving undue prominence to English, and creating unfair competition for the Afrikaans press.

Described later as an " inner sanctum ", " an immense informal network of influence ", and by Jan Smuts as a " dangerous, cunning, political fascist organization ", in 1920 Jong Zuid Afrika now restyled as the Afrikaner Broederbond, was a grouping of 37 white men of Afrikaner ethnicity, Afrikaans language, and the Calvinist Dutch Reformed faith, who shared cultural, semi-religious, and deeply political objectives based on traditions and experiences dating back to the arrival of Dutch white settlers, French Huguenots, and Germans at the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries and including the dramatic events of the Great Trek in the 1830s and 40's.

The aim of the town is to create a stronghold for Afrikaans and the Afrikaner identity by keeping their language and culture alive.

" He helped found and was the first chairperson of the Broederbond ( Afrikaans, " Brotherhood " or " League of Brothers "), the powerful Afrikaner men's secret society that played a dominant role in apartheid South Africa.

Many speakers of a language may in fact be from a different nationality, for example both the Afrikaner and Coloured communities speak Afrikaans ( although many Coloured consider themselves to be Afrikaners ), large sections of the Indian community speak English as their home language ( as do South Africans of British descent ) and groups such as the Thembu and Hlubi speak dialects of Xhosa as their home language.

The word Ulusaba was corrupted by the Afrikaner colonialists who changed it from Ulusaba Shangaan into Sabie Afrikaans Version.

With the rise of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa during the early part of the 20th century, Scouting was viewed with suspicion by many Afrikaners because of its English roots, and rival Afrikaans organisations including the Voortrekkers were established.

* The Afrikaner ethnic group, mainly composed of Afrikaans speaking South Africans of European descent ( mainly Dutch, German and French )

Kate Saunders in The Times reviewed it as: " Superbly written, thoughtful and unflinching, this terrific novel explores the mentality of the Afrikaner male — with wonderfully poetic use of the Afrikaans language.