Afrikaner nationalism

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.[1]
Overview
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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.[1]
Popularity
[change | change source]A major proponent of the ideology was the secret group, Broederbond and the National Party (NP) that ruled the country from 1948 to 1994.[2] 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).[3]
Academic views
[change | change source]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.
References
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- Furlong, Patrick (November 1, 2003). "Apartheid, Afrikaner nationalism and the radical Right : historical revisionism in Hermann Giliomee's The Afrikaners : review article". South African Historical Journal. 49: 207‒222. doi:10.10520/EJC93532. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- Braskén, Kasper (April 13, 2022). "South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office: Antisemitism, Anti-communism and the Surveillance of the Third Reich's International Enemies". South African Historical Journal. 74 (1: Anti-Fascism in Southern Africa): 30‒54. doi:10.1080/02582473.2022.2027005. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- Shain, Milton (2023). "Antisemitism in South Africa". The Routledge History of Antisemitism (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780429428616. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- Shain, Milton; Mendelsohn, Richard (2024). "Zionism between Afrikaner Nationalism and Apartheid". Routledge Handbook on Zionism (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781003312352. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
Zionism achieved an [...] unchallenged hegemony within South African Jewry in the early decades of the twentieth century [. ...] Jews in South African society was threatened from the 1920s by the rise of nativism and exclusivist Afrikaner nationalism [. ...] In post-Apartheid South Africa the Zionist idea has encountered a less comfortable environment.
- Kohnert, Dirk (2024). "Jews in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of South Africa, Nigeria, DR Congo and Ethiopia" (PDF). African Studies. Geneva, Switzerland: Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10903675. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
- ↑ "Apartheid - Rise Of Afrikaner Nationalism". Net Industries. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- ↑ Louw, P. Eric (2004). The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 27–55. ISBN 0-275-98311-0.