Word: boer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many English-speaking white Christians. But that has had little impact on the dominant Afrikaners. Their three Dutch Reformed churches, especially the large Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (or N.G. Church), have conferred a consistent moral endorsement on racism. "The church was the bastion of white supremacy, especially after the Boer War and the Depression," says Smith...
Here is George Orwell, resembling "Don Quixote, very lean and egotistic and honest and foolish; a veritable Knight of the Woeful Countenance ... A kind of dry egotism has burnt him out." Here is Winston Churchill in retirement, "a curious mixture of cunning and animality" pathetically exhibiting an old Boer War poster advertising ?25 for his capture: "It's more than they would offer...
During the 1970s, Scouting seemed embarrassed by its old-fashioned ways. It tried to go modern, moving away from the outdoor skills stressed by Lieut. General Robert Baden-Powell, hero of the Boer War, when he founded the British Boy Scouts at Brownsea Island...
...Africa's family tree through the male line, Hattingh chose five early 18th century native women and traced their descendants. What he uncovered were some rather surprising branches. Among the descendants of an African woman called Lijsbeth, for instance, were the President of the Transvaal republic in the Boer War, "Oom (Uncle) Paul" Kruger, and South Africa's first Prime Minister, Louis Botha. In all, Hattingh counted 80 families of mixed racial roots, a substantial slice of the white Afrikaner establishment...
...Michener, the central paradox of the Afrikaners remains their gift for overcoming adversity and their inability to deal with compromise. After the Boer fighting ends in 1902, South Africa moves backward onto narrower and narrower ground. The warring English and Afrikaners unite in a fear of darker races...