Afrikaner

At the start of the 20th century the Afrikaners were a defeated nation after daring to challenge the British in the Anglo-Boer war. World War II and The Great Depression brought increasing economic troubles to South Africa, and convinced the government to strengthen its policies of racial segregation. In 1948, the Afrikaner National Party won the general election under the term ‘apartheid’. Their aim was not only to separate South Africa’s white minority from its non-white majority, but also to…

Paton offers a stunningly harsh and realistic view of racial fear and the harmful effects it has on everyone. In South Africa at that time, unfortunately, racial segregation was legal and the native Blacks were treated differently from the white Afrikaners. Their unequal treatment led to fear and resentment of one another. Although modern-day America is not the same as the South Africa that Paton describes, fear and distrust between the races continue to stand in the way of change and progress…

Introduction The United Nations, whose responsibility is to protect the basic human rights of all individuals, created the Millennium Development Goals to meet unprecedented basic needs of the poor in different areas of the world. The United Nations’ first mission: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Nonetheless, how is an entity such as the United Nations, or individual nation-states at that, supposed to break down systems that were meant to be permanent? A system can be described as an…

the African majority toward the Afrikaners. Through certain scenes and film techniques such as camera angles, the film shows the aftermaths and social economic differences resulting after the dissolution of the fervent Apartheid era. The idea was first highlighted in the opening scene when the camera panned down upon a group of young boys playing sports. The racial segregation and social difference between the two groups are prominent in this scene as the Afrikaners are seen in expensive…

Africa was run by the white minority rule of the Afrikaners, those who ancestry derives from England after South Africa’s colonization (“South African Racial Formations”). The Population Registration Act enacted in South Africa in 1950 further solidified this racial segregation by creating four distinct classifications of South Africans: White, Asian, Colored, and Native (“South African Racial Formations”). This law became the epitome of the Afrikaners push to preserve “Afrikanerdom,” or the…

divided the Afrikaners and the various black tribes for exempla Zulu, Xhosa, and Bapedi. The effect that Mandela being president have given rise to jubilation adjustment for much of the black population of South Africa, whilst the white Afrikaners and Zulu begin to feel like they have lost the country or are going to be losing they’re country. This is demonstrated by a squadron of cars squirting Mandela down a road, with poor black kids playing soccer on one side, and white Afrikaners playing…

separateness, was the slogan used by the Afrikaner National Party for their victorious electoral campaign in 1948. Racial segregation had been a prominent theme in South Africa well before the apartheid era began, South Africa as a whole has never fully been able to shake the oppressive and racist attitudes that dominated in its colonial past. In 1913 just three years after South Africa gained its independence the government passed the Land Act which forced…

Resistance to the NGK The apartheid ideology was not unanimously supported in the Afrikaner churches; it met resistance on many levels, at first from the whites in the NGK, then from the blacks in the NGSK and the NGKA. Reverend Beyers Naudé, a minister at NGK, was one of the early objectors to the apartheid ideology, and in1964, he was stripped of his position due to his involvement with the Christian Institute – a multiracial group – that advocated for causes like the Black Consciousness and…

What is democracy? Democracy can be defined as the system of government in which the ruling power of a state is legally vested, not in any particular population group or class, but in the people. Abraham Lincoln(President of the United States of America 1861-1865), said that democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people. The word democracy comes from the Greek word demos and knatia, in other words rule by people meaning all citizens in the city state Athens. Democracy thus…

“Throughout the struggle there was music,” the narrator says as depicting graphic images of death and cruelty in South Africa. That is how the movie Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony begins, with the viewing of pictures and film that depicts the Apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid was the segregation movement in South Africa that with a textbook definition means “separate development” whereas truthfully it entailed a set of laws that were passed which decided who could live, travel,…