Afrikaner nationalism

1st executive council of the Afrikaner Broederbond in 1918.

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.

Overview

Flag of South Africa, used between 1928 and 1982. It is identical to the 1982 to 1994 version except that the shade of blue is darker. It is also known as the "Oranje-Blanje-Blou".

Sign in Durban that states the beach is for whites only under section 37 of the Durban beach by-laws. The languages are English, Afrikaans and Zulu (the language of the black population group in the Durban area).

Map of the 20 bantustans – territories set aside for Black South Africans during the apartheid – in South Africa and South West Africa (Namibia).

Indian South Africans in Durban, 1963.

A little Anglo-South African girl in front of a parade of the South African Police in Pietermaritzburg (Natal), 1987.

Further information: Supersessionism

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.

Popularity

Further information: Apartheid

A major proponent of the ideology was the secret group, Broederbond and the National Party (NP) that ruled the country from 1948 to 1994. 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).

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.