Afrikaner

Introduction Textual sources are staples of academic evidence that help analyze and piece together historical narratives, they these sources have a major limitation. This limitation is that textual sources cannot produce as strong of emotions for readers compared to non-textual sources. For example, the murder of Emmett Till is painful moment from the Civil Rights Movements that is difficult to grasp from the description alone. However, when you view photos of Till’s beaten and bloated corps,…

Heart of Charity There were approximately 4,586,838 white people in the country of South Africa, amounting to 8.9% of the country's population in the 1940’s. Many natives in Africa during this time became filled with fear and uncertainty that they would never reclaim their country again since the white man was taking it over. In “Cry, the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton, James Jarvis, a white man and a loving father, eventually exhibits an understanding and sympathy for the people of South…

The social history of WhSAfE starts with the establishment of a trading and re-freshment station by the Dutch in the Eastern Cape at the end of the 18th century, con-trolled by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and frequented by British ships on their itinerary to the Far East (see Bowerman 2013: 512; Bowerman 2008b: 164). Due to the military capture of the Netherlands and its oversea possessions by Napoleon, the station, together with the surrounding area, was taken over by the British in 1795…

law degree from the University of Witwatersrand, Mandela became involved in the political scene of South Africa with the ANC, or the African National Congress. The national party was made up of Afrikaners passed laws in which banned black people from holding positions within the government. The Afrikaners were the minority of upper class White South Africans. They mostly descended from British or Dutch ancestry. Mandela, along with ANC, started peaceful protests, dubbed the "Defiance Campaign".…

According to the African National Congress (ANC)’s Freedom Charter of 1955, all people [of South Africa] shall have the right to live where they choose, be decently housed, and to bring their families up in comfort and security...rent and prices shall be lowered...slums shall be demolished and new suburbs built where all have transport, roads, lighting, playing fields...and social centres…[and] fenced locations and ghettoes shall be abolished. When one examines the imperfect performance of the…

I saw the word Apartheid more than I wish to count. There always seemed to be two different words that separated my kind from them and that was Afrikaner. I was known as an Afrikaner, I was supposed to hate African Americans, yet, I feel so bad for them. Now becoming agitated I screamed at my mother, “ Why would you show me this, why are we segregated, why aren't we stopping it?!?” she told me to calm down and…

Born on july 18, 1918, Nelson Mandela grew up into the royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo. His father was a tribe chief who died in 1927, and his mother took care of him until she passes away in 1968. He was adopted by his teacher and given the name Nelson Mandela by her keeping it out of respect. Growing up Mandela would listen to stories about his great ancestors fighting for equality through peace, and from an early age Nelson developed the…

broken promises feeling resentful and bitter and that further accelerated the rise of nationalism out of the mutual anger towards white pre- eminence and oppression. The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that aimed to contest the growing Afrikaner…

indigenous and among their enslaved class for both political and demographic reasons. "Few colonists seem to have been under the illusion that the Netherlands could be re-created...until conditions were ripe for the emergence of a self-conscious Afrikaner community."11 In their early years, they did intentionally plan the creation of a society like the British did.12 Moreover, the British outgrew Native Americans in number and away from their need for indigenous support in adapting to the…

Nelson Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo, on the eastern coast of South Africa, on 18 July 1918. In 1930, when he was only 12 years old, his father died, leaving him to depend on his mother. Mandela was brought up listening to the elders’ stories of his ancestor’s bravery during times of war, sparking a fire in him to contribute to the freedom struggle of his people. Nelson Mandela would go to on boycott his university, because of its treatment of colored people. He would eventually be…