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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Afrikaners"”.
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Factors in the persistence or decline of ethnic group mobilisation: a conceptual review and case study of cultural group responses among Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa
… and decline of ethnic mobilisation among white Afrikaners in South Africa. For many observers the recent apparent "decomposition" of Afrikaner nationalist mobilisation has been surprising, and the factors associated with this trend were expected to contain insights relevant to the theoretical …
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The role of social media in the spread of health misinformation in South Africa: the Netwerk24 Facebook page, Afrikaner identity, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
… that were posted by White Afrikaans speakers (or Afrikaners) on the Netwerk24 Facebook Page during a two-year period of the pandemic spanning 1 March 2020 until 28 February 2022. Categorising the themes of misinformation shared among commentators, the study uses social identity theory and populism …
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Early mine and railway housing in South Africa: a two-part study of ideology and design in working-class housing.
… urban areas of unskilled and mostly illiterate Afrikaners. Poor white relief in time developed into a chief objective of Government, with the Railways forming the vanguard of its so-called 'civilised labour' policy after 1924 in giving preference to white workers over black in unskilled and …
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Myths of rebellion : Afrikaner and countercultural discourse
… It is suggested that these myths assist Afrikaners who feel alienated in post-apartheid South Africa to foster a sense of legitimacy and belonging. It will argue that countercultural thinking plays a major role in the discourse of rebellion. Research is conducted within the framework of …
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Die gelofte van 16 Desember 1838 : die herdenking en betekenis daarvan, 1838 tot 1910 (Afrikaans)
… associates. In 1864 the General Synod of the Afrikaners' Natal Churches agreed that 16 December would henceforth be celebrated as ecclesiastical day of thanksgiving by all its congregations. This was the result of the efforts of two Dutch clergymen and supporters of Revival Theology, namely …
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Prepared for a world that no longer exists : white Afrikaner males revise identity for a transformed world
… advantaged group in the new dispensation, white Afrikaners are facing new and often bewildering challenges as they struggle to carve out an appropriate space for themselves in the new political ethos of non-racialism and equality for all. This study examines how a particular group of white …
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Die Britse vloot aan die Kaap, 1795-1803
… jaarliks van honderde dienspligtige jong Suid-Afrikaners. 'n Honderd twee-en-sewentig jaar tevore - op 11 Junie 1795 - het 'n eskader van die Britse vloot sy verskyning in Simonsbaai gemaak. Dit was die begin van 'n vlootverbintenis tussen Brittanje en die latere Suid-Afrika wat, met 'n …
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Afrikaans-English in the Western Cape : a descriptive socio-linguistic investigation
… historical and sociolinguistic background of the Afrikaners. This is important, as without an understanding of their history and social circumstances one cannot appreciate their present attitudes to language. The formative history of the Afrikaners includes a description of the policies of the …
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Reconciliation in Southern Africa : the role of the Afrikaans Churches. A historical and analytical study of the contributions of the Afrikaans Churches to the process of reconciliation in Southern Africa, with special reference to their response to the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… Church (DRC) is the largest church under the Afrikaners, explains why more space is given to occurrences in the DRC than to the others. Because Afrikaners work together in many situations, belong to the same clubs, etc. it is also clear that the occurrences in the DRC would have some effect on …
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Afrikanerdoom? : negotiating Afrikaner identity in post-apartheid South Africa
… we find some of the central problems facing Afrikaners in general in terms of identity formation. It is argued that although Orania is radical in its claims, it is nonetheless one of the actors in the discursive battles of redefining Afrikaner identity. However, in the context of radical …
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The literature on perceptions of environmental taxation in South Africa
… pas en om die persepsies en kennisbasis van Suid-Afrikaners wat omgewingsbelasting betref, te vergroot.
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Authoritarianism revisited: a study among Afrikaans and English middle-class women
… on the RWA scale. It was argued that among Afrikaners, the mentioned ideologies are legitimated by a religious discourse. A measure of Christian Orthodoxy (SCO) was therefore included. A correlation between RWA and Racism, as measured by Duckitt's (1990) Subtle racism (SR) scale was …
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Narratief en trauma in die oeuvre van Etienne van Heerden
… van die verlede, die skuldgevoel van Suid-Afrikaners gedurende en na apartheid, en die verwonding van mense gedurende apartheid. Onderdrukte fasette van die geskiedenis kom na vore in Van Heerden se oeuvre, wat 'n stem gee aan diegene wat in die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedskrywing …
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Imagining multilingual spaces through scripted 'codeswitching' in multilingual performance: a case study of '7de Laan'
… I argue that the soap puts middle class white Afrikaners at the epicentre of South African society thus enforcing the idea that non-whites still need to conform to white Afrikaans standards and norms at the expense of their own culture and languages despite the inception of democracy. The soap …
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The South African War and Afrikaner nationalism in Afrikaans-language films and television : changing representations circa 1930s - 2000s
… African War is an important historical event for Afrikaners, not only because of the suffering endured, but also for how the war came to symbolise Afrikaner identity and ethno-nationalism. The South African War is central to Afrikaner beliefs and conceptions of the Afrikaner volk, or nation, its …
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The Making of Pretoria as the Citadel of Apartheid, 1948-73
… already the most significant urban centre for Afrikaners, because it contained all the national offices of the public service, and, to a lesser extent, because it was the capital of the old Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. The focus of the dissertation is on the early apartheid period (1948-73), …
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The educational policy and activities of the Dutch reformed church mission in Zambia up to 1976.
… the only secondary school, Katete, in 1976. The Afrikaners of South Africa have for long been associated with racial discrimination and oppression of the black people. It is interesting to ascertain why and how members of the same people, now in the name of the Dutch Reformed Church, pursued …
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An international comparative study of the effect of personal income tax on labour migration
… inkomstebelastingstelsel) aangehaal deur Suid- Afrikaners die vinnige tempo regverdig waarteen Suid-Afrikaners die land verlaat nie. Die doel van hierdie studie is om vas te stel of Suid-Afrikaanse werknemers in Nederland en Australië enige belastingtoegewings of voordelige belastingbehandeling …
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Familial hypercholesterolaemia - the Cape Town experience
… description of a geographic distribution of Afrikaners with familial hypercholesterolaemia is given. This regional variation might relate to migration of early settlers away from the Cape. Null defects of the low density lipoprotein receptor resulted in worse biochemical and clinical effects …
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Women, welfare and the nurturing of Afrikaner nationalism : a social history of the Afrikaanse Christelike Vroue Vereniging, c.1870-1939
… ACVV sought to fashion Afrikaans whites into 'Afrikaners' through philanthropic activity. At first, this was especially true of rural branches, but from the early 1920s, Cape Town's ACVV also responded to the growing influx of 'poor whites' by focusing specifically on social welfare work. One …
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