Afrikaner

For over 50 years South Africa suffered brutal repression coming from the Afrikaner Empire with the objective to own the land and all its resources. Racism was the main problem during 1948 until 1991, where African black people were abused and separated from their land due to a legislation named Apartheid imposed by the National Party (government party) in Africa. Afrikaners were Dutch decedents that arrived to Africa between the seventeenth and eighteenth century. From 1877 to 1878 the last…

Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by Josh Carlin is an extraordinary read about a nation that no one ever thought would come together as one. As a politician of South Africa and eventually the president, Nelson Mandela, always seemed to know how to win others over. Not only would he win them over, he would develop a connection through his words that made the people feel adoring to his nature. The drive and motivation combined with the smooth talker he was led him…

felt that they were entitled to better accommodations. 23 years later and that still holds to be true despite the end of Apartheid. In an article written about Orania, a city in South Africa, CNN writer says, “Orania, you might have guessed, is Afrikaner-only. And by extension, whites-only.”(CNN). Black South Africans aren’t allowed to live in this city, they are excluded. It has been quite a long time since the end of apartheid but many people still seem to have the same mindset as before.…

parliamentary election with less than 50 percent of the vote, but due to gerrymandering, the results are swayed in their favor (25). The party represented the Afrikaner population and marked the beginning of four decades of National Party rule. Soon thereafter apartheid officially begins with the alienation of the blacks through the strength of Afrikaner nationalism and the whites’ fear of blacks having power. In 1990, NP believed that it could set aside apartheid by replacing one government…

of black people who live amongst white people. However, these white people consider themselves superior beings and in order for the Ju/'hoansi's to make a living, they have to work for them for little money. The white people are referred to as "Afrikaners." Sylvain (2005) stated how "our identities and self-understanding changes as we move through our initiation ritual of fieldwork." I think this statement doesn’t really hold valid, as she made this point based off her own experience. From…

1. The primary objective of this paper is not to comprehensively educate the reader on all facets of the cultural domains within South Africa, rather inform the reader about the various cultural domains that will be identified with regards to South Africa. The first cultural domain will be the highlighting of key historical moments that have influenced South Africa’s current historical standing. The Second cultural domain that will be addressed will be the different types’ of political and…

independence. These conflicting political intentions in some historians eyes were the root cause of the war. G. D. Scholtz explores this view from the perspective of the Afrikaner people, while the British perspective is outlined by Leo Amery.(Smith, 2004, p24). Scholtz suggests that the war was the product of national Afrikaner condemnations of the British reign in South Africa. This view is maintained among those who suggest that the British rule was based on a ‘century of wrong.’ Events such…

While White South Africans were getting the most noteworthy expectations for everyday comforts like the living states of western first world nations, the majority of black people didn 't get any kind of expectations for everyday comforts and rights such as income, education and were even discriminated. It was amid these conditions that Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela seized the leadership of the anti-apartheid movement. The courageous and reconciliatory Nelson Mandela, was a salient figure in shaping…

Uriel Abulof is a professor of politics at Tel-Aviv University and a senior research fellow at Princeton University. Abulof’s The Mortality and Morality of Nations is the one of the recent books that Abulof has published dealing with the political morality of nations and how small nations arise and transcend to exist as a nation. The book consist of five chapters and it is split into an introduction in which he states his clear and straightforward trajectory in addressing to explicate how…

of South Africa were formed after the formation of the Union of South Africa. The Afrikaners established National Party because they realized that they did not have capital and marketable skills. The black South African started African National Congress because they were discriminated and manipulated by the whites. Although both Afrikaners and South Africans initially opposed the Union of South Africa, the Afrikaners chose to side with the Union of South Africa out of fear of black competition…