Word: afrikanerism
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Sir: Your story focuses quite rightly on the Afrikaner, for it is he who holds the key to the solution of that country's problems.
Yet, the Afrikaner frightens me. As a Jewish South African, I realize that, were it not for his preoccupation with the Bantu, he would still be openly and violently antiSemitic. He frightens me because, ostrichlike, he refuses to see that apartheid can never work. He frightens me because he cannot...
The Afrikaner is a prisoner both of circumstances and of his rigid fascist ideology. Fear dominates him. Hatred churns in his stomach. One can only hope, like Abram Fischer, that the integrity of man will ultimately win through and justice prevail. That seems to be South Africa's only...
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was in a very real sense a child of the conflict. He was born at the height of the fighting, in a Dutch village near Amsterdam. His grocer father was a member of a committee to help Boer refugees, and so incensed did he become at their...
(5 of 11) Violently racist, it demanded laws to protect the unskilled and often illiterate Afrikaner laborers against the "indignity" of working alongside blacks, hammered home the theme that Strijdom was the only man who could save South Africa from the swart gevaar (black peril). So anti-British was the...