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Calvinism in the Context of the Afrikaner Nationalist Ideology
ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES, 78, 2009, 2, 305-323 CALVINISM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE AFRIKANER NATIONALIST IDEOLOGY Jela D o bo šo vá Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia [email protected] Calvinism was a part of the mythic history of Afrikaners; however, it was only a specific interpretation of history that made it a part of the ideology of the Afrikaner nationalists. Calvinism came to South Africa with the first Dutch settlers. There is no historical evidence that indicates that the first settlers were deeply religious, but they were worshippers in the Nederlands Hervormde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church), which was the only church permitted in the region until 1778. After almost 200 years, Afrikaner nationalism developed and connected itself with Calvinism. This happened due to the theoretical and ideological approach of S. J.du Toit and a man referred to as its ‘creator’, Paul Kruger. The ideology was highly influenced by historical developments in the Netherlands in the late 19th century and by the spread of neo-Calvinism and Christian nationalism there. It is no accident, then, that it was during the 19th century when the mythic history of South Africa itself developed and that Calvinism would play such a prominent role in it. It became the first religion of the Afrikaners, a distinguishing factor in the multicultural and multiethnic society that existed there at the time. It legitimised early thoughts of a segregationist policy and was misused for political intentions. Key words: Afrikaner, Afrikaner nationalism, Calvinism, neo-Calvinism, Christian nationalism, segregation, apartheid, South Africa, Great Trek, mythic history, Nazi regime, racial theories Calvinism came to South Africa in 1652, but there is no historical evidence that the settlers who came there at that time were Calvinists. -
The Gordian Knot: Apartheid & the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order, 1960-1970
THE GORDIAN KNOT: APARTHEID & THE UNMAKING OF THE LIBERAL WORLD ORDER, 1960-1970 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Ryan Irwin, B.A., M.A. History ***** The Ohio State University 2010 Dissertation Committee: Professor Peter Hahn Professor Robert McMahon Professor Kevin Boyle Professor Martha van Wyk © 2010 by Ryan Irwin All rights reserved. ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the apartheid debate from an international perspective. Positioned at the methodological intersection of intellectual and diplomatic history, it examines how, where, and why African nationalists, Afrikaner nationalists, and American liberals contested South Africa’s place in the global community in the 1960s. It uses this fight to explore the contradictions of international politics in the decade after second-wave decolonization. The apartheid debate was never at the center of global affairs in this period, but it rallied international opinions in ways that attached particular meanings to concepts of development, order, justice, and freedom. As such, the debate about South Africa provides a microcosm of the larger postcolonial moment, exposing the deep-seated differences between politicians and policymakers in the First and Third Worlds, as well as the paradoxical nature of change in the late twentieth century. This dissertation tells three interlocking stories. First, it charts the rise and fall of African nationalism. For a brief yet important moment in the early and mid-1960s, African nationalists felt genuinely that they could remake global norms in Africa’s image and abolish the ideology of white supremacy through U.N. -
The Referendum in FW De Klerk's War of Manoeuvre
The referendum in F.W. de Klerk’s war of manoeuvre: An historical institutionalist account of the 1992 referendum. Gary Sussman. London School of Economics and Political Science. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Government and International History, 2003 UMI Number: U615725 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U615725 Published by ProQuest LLC 2014. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 T h e s e s . F 35 SS . Library British Library of Political and Economic Science Abstract: This study presents an original effort to explain referendum use through political science institutionalism and contributes to both the comparative referendum and institutionalist literatures, and to the political history of South Africa. Its source materials are numerous archival collections, newspapers and over 40 personal interviews. This study addresses two questions relating to F.W. de Klerk's use of the referendum mechanism in 1992. The first is why he used the mechanism, highlighting its role in the context of the early stages of his quest for a managed transition. -
SOUTK Afftica's EXPANDING RELATIONS with LATIN AMERICA, 1966-1976 W David Fig
SOUTK AFFtICA'S EXPANDING RELATIONS WITH LATIN AMERICA, 1966-1976 W David Fig The documentation of South Africa's relations with Latin America has previously received only cursory mention in work on contemporary South African history. This paper seeks to examine the significance of these relations and to raise a number of pertinent questions about the role of the state in its efforts to promote suoh linkages. Althou& trade relations existed since the early nineteenth century (l), and South Africa had limited diplomatic representation in Argentina and Brazil since 1938 and 1943, respectively (2), it is only in the last dozen years that relations with Latin America have been expanded significantly. The conjuncture of the mid-1960s in South Africa saw a period of sustained expansion of the gross domestic product which was assisted by new injections of foreign inves-tment following the severe repression of the nationalist movement. But "growth11required the importation of large amounts of expensive and sophisticated capital goods, and this took place at a much faster rate than did the increase in exports. South African exports - two-thirds of which consisted of primary products - had to overcome the adverse effects of an inflationary cost structure, and it became imperative that new markets for manufactured products be found, especially because it was feared that gold production would plateau and decline in view of the constant official price. Although Africa seemed the ideal target for a South African sub-imperial role, numerous political constraints presented themselves, only to be compounded later, after the abortive attempts at "dialogue" and ltdetente'l.Manufactured goods were also unlikely to be competitive with those produced in western Europe and North America, South Africa's traditional markets for primary products. -
The Sadf Conscript Generation and Its Search for Healing, Reconciliation and Social Justice
THE SADF CONSCRIPT GENERATION AND ITS SEARCH FOR HEALING, RECONCILIATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Philosophiae Doctor in the Practical and Missional Theology department Faculty of Theology and Religion University of the Free State Pieter Hendrik Schalk Bezuidenhout Study leader: Prof. P. Verster Bloemfontein January 2015 Translated by Suzanne Storbeck (June 2020) DECLARATION (i) I, Pieter Hendrik Schalk Bezuidenhout, declare that this thesis, submitted to the University of the Free State in fulfilment for the degree Philosophiae Doctor, is my own work and that it has not been handed in at any other university or higher education institution. (ii) I, Pieter Hendrik Schalk Bezuidenhout, declare that I am aware that the copyright of this thesis belongs to the University of the Free State. (iii) I, Pieter Hendrik Schalk Bezuidenhout, declare that the property rights of any intellectual property developed during the study and/or in connection with the study, will be seated in the University of the Free State. i ABSTRACT The former (Afrikaner) SADF conscript generation is to a large extent experiencing an identity crisis. This crisis is due to two factors. First of all, there is a new dispensation where Afrikaners are a minority group. They feel alienated, even frustrated and confused. Secondly, their identity has been challenged and some would say defeated. What is their role and new identity in the current SA? They fought a war and participated internally in operations within a specific local, regional and global context. This identity was formed through their own particular history as well as certain theological and ideological worldviews and frameworks. -
Boycotts and Sanctions Against South Africa: an International History, 1946-1970
Boycotts and Sanctions against South Africa: An International History, 1946-1970 Simon Stevens Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2016 © 2016 Simon Stevens All rights reserved ABSTRACT Boycotts and Sanctions against South Africa: An International History, 1946-1970 Simon Stevens This dissertation analyzes the role of various kinds of boycotts and sanctions in the strategies and tactics of those active in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. What was unprecedented about the efforts of members of the global anti-apartheid movement was that they experimented with so many ways of severing so many forms of interaction with South Africa, and that boycotts ultimately came to be seen as such a central element of their struggle. But it was not inevitable that international boycotts would become indelibly associated with the struggle against apartheid. Calling for boycotts and sanctions was a political choice. In the years before 1959, most leading opponents of apartheid both inside and outside South Africa showed little interest in the idea of international boycotts of South Africa. This dissertation identifies the conjuncture of circumstances that caused this to change, and explains the subsequent shifts in the kinds of boycotts that opponents of apartheid prioritized. It shows that the various advocates of boycotts and sanctions expected them to contribute to ending apartheid by a range of different mechanisms, from bringing about an evolutionary change in white attitudes through promoting the desegregation of sport, to weakening the state’s ability to resist the efforts of the liberation movements to seize power through guerrilla warfare. -
The Influence of Early Apartheid Intellectualisation on Twentieth-Century Afrikaans Music Historiography
The Influence of Early Apartheid Intellectualisation on Twentieth-Century Afrikaans Music Historiography by Carina Venter Submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree Masters in Musicology at the Stellenbosch University Department of Music Faculty of Humanities Supervisor: Stephanus Jacobus van Zyl Muller December 2009 The financial assistance of the Department of Labour (DoL) towards this research is hereby acknowledged. Opinions expressed and conclusions arrived at, are those of the author and are not necessarily to be attributed to the DoL. Declaration By submitting this dissertation electronically, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the owner of the copyright thereof (unless to the extent explicitly otherwise stated) and that I have not previously in its entirety or in part submitted it for obtaining any qualification. December 2009 Copyright © 2009 Stellenbosch University All rights reserved 2 Acknowledgements I have come to the end of one road and the beginning of another. As I pause at the juncture of these two roads, I reflect with an immense sense of gratitude on the past two years of my life. So many individuals have played decisive roles, not only in the research that constitutes this thesis, but also in the fostering of my intellectual development, ethical sensibilities and spiritual well-being. In many different ways, each of these individuals and their views matter and have become important to me. While I am sure that the work presented here is imperfect in many ways, the generous contributions of those who accompanied me on this road have made it better than it would have been without them. -
SA-GENEALOGIE Poslys Jaargang VI Maand 3 Saamgestel Deur: Pieter L
SA-GENEALOGIE Poslys Argiewe 2009 Jaargang VI Maand 3 Maart 2009 Saamgestel deur: Pieter L van der Merwe KWYTSKELDING Hierdie argief is nie ’n amptelike, wetlike dokument nie, maar ’n samestelling van die e-posse van verskillende lede van die SA Genealogie Gesprekslys soos dit gedurende die tydperk ingestuur was. Die lyseienaars en hulle bestuurspan aanvaar dus geen aanspreeklikheid vir die korrektheid van gegewens, sienings oor bepaalde gebeure, interpretasie en samestelling van familieverwantskappe, of vir enige aksies of verlies wat daaruit mag voortspruit nie, en stel voor dat persone wat hierdie bron gebruik, self eers die gegewens kontroleer. Maart 2009 Bundels Onderwerp: [SA-Gen] Bundel Nommer 3685 Datum: Sunday, March 01, 2009 Daar is 25 boodskappe in hierdie uitgawe Onderwerpe in hierdie bundel: 1a. Aan die Kaap in die 17 de eeu From: Dr MJS Jordaan 1b. Re: Aan die Kaap in die 17 de eeu From: Sylvester Rascher 2. [Koerant] KWANA In The City 27 Februarie 2009 From: aletta magrieta.quebbemann 3. [KOERANT]BEELD-van TONDER Shandré[18] From: Family Teir 4. [KOERANT]DIE BURGER-KOTZE Amanda [42] From: Family Teir 5. (Koerant) Beeld 28 Feb. 2009 From: Fanie Blignaut 6a. ABO weeskinders From: fouche.leon 6b. Re: ABO weeskinders From: Gert Esterhuizen 6c. Re: ABO weeskinders From: Daniel Jacobs 6d. Viloud is dalk VILONEL From: Annelie Els 7. Argief opsoek From: Johan Niemandt 8a. [Het jy geweet] From: Gert Esterhuizen 9a. Vir Harry [Verlore Bosman] From: Lucky Belinfante 9b. Sterk Hermanus From: Paul Bosman 10a. Burgerskap "Precis of The Archives Of The Cape of GoodHope" Requeste From: Johan van Breda 10b. -
NA Unrevised Hansard Second Reading Debate: Higher Education Amendment Bill
24 MAY 2016 PAGE: 1 of 207 TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016 ____ PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ____ The House met at 14:02. House Chairperson Mr C T Frolick took the Chair and requested members to observe a moment of silence for prayer or meditation. ANNOUNCEMENTS, TABLINGS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS – see col 000. NOTICES OF MOTION Mrs L L VAN DER MERWE: Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the House I shall move on behalf of the IFP: That the House debates the urgent need for government to provide free sanitary products to millions of school girls who miss a week of school each month, simply because they cannot access sanitary products, which not only negatively impacts on their health but also denies them their right to education. 24 MAY 2016 PAGE: 2 of 207 Ms S R VAN SCHALKWYK: Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the House I shall move on behalf of the ANC: That the House debates mechanisms geared at ensuring the provision of services to all communities in a sustainable manner. Mr P G ATKINSON: Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the House I shall move on behalf of the DA: That the House - (1) debates the South African economy‘s recent decline to the third largest economy in Africa and the effect that this will have on job creation and economic growth; and (2) discusses measures to be put into place to return the South African economy to its previous top-ranking position as Africa‘s largest economy. -
South African Philosopher ______
Journal of World Philosophies Book Review/270 Memoirs of a Black (Male) South African Philosopher _________________________________________ NOMPUMELELO ZINHLE MANZINI The Pennsylvania State University, USA ([email protected]) Mabogo Percy More. Looking Through Philosophy in Black. London: Roman & Littlefield International, 2019, pp. 283, USD 122. ISBN: 978-1-78660-939-7. To practice philosophy is to be part of a conversation, and this autobiography is a conversation about Mabogo Percy More’s experiences as a black African philosopher in South Africa. Not only is this a conversation about philosophy, but it is also a conversation with philosophy as a profession, its interlocutors, and the philosophical canon (i.e., its concepts, methodology, manuscripts). Moreover, it is an account of the philosophers both living (such as Lewis Gordon, Charles W. Mills, and Tendayi Sithole) and dead (such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Steve Bantu Biko, and William E. B. DuBois) who have informed More’s worldview, matched with his lived experience. More specifically, as he himself says, this is “an autobiography of a black philosopher in apartheid and (post)apartheid South Africa and its academic institutions” (vii). Key words: black philosophy; African philosophy; existentialism; critical philosophy of race Mabogo Percy More is a retired South African philosopher who has served as a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Limpopo, South Africa. In writing this philosophical memoir, More details what it is like to exist in anti-black philosophical spaces as a black person during and “post” apartheid South Africa. He is also the author of Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation and has written extensively on African existentialism. -
South African Female Subjectivity (1868-1977): Life Writing, the Agentive “I” and Recovering Stories
South African Female Subjectivity (1868-1977): Life Writing, the Agentive “I” and Recovering Stories Lizelle Smit Dissertation presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University Supervisors: Dr Mathilda Slabbert and Prof Louise Viljoen April 2019 The financial assistance of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in collaboration with the South African Humanities Deans Association towards Lizelle Smit’s research is hereby acknowledged. Opinions expressed and conclusions arrived at are those of the author and are not necessarily to be attributed to the NIHSS and SAHUDA. Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za Declaration By submitting this dissertation, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the sole author thereof (save to the extent explicitly otherwise stated), that reproduction and publication thereof by Stellenbosch University will not infringe any third party rights and that I have not previously in its entirety or in part submitted it for obtaining any qualification. October 2018 Signed: Lizelle Smit Copyright © 2019 Stellenbosch University All rights reserved Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za Abstract This dissertation investigates the formation of white female subjectivity in the life writing of three South African women, penned between 1868 and 1977. The subjects are: Betty Molteno (1852- 1927), Hettie Smit (1908-1973) and Joyce Waring (1914-2003). I consider subjectivity formation as contingent on geo-cultural, historical, ethnic and socio-political contexts, as well as cultural and political markers of identity such as race, gender and ethnicity. -
South African Textile Industry
A HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY. THE PIONEERING PHASE, 1820 - 1948 by JAMES (PADDY) CAROL McDOWELL Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Commerce (Economic History) at the University of Natal, Durban December 2000 " DECLARATION I hereby declare Ihal this dissertation, except where explicitly stated to the contrary in the text, is entirely my own original work. JAMES (PADDY) CAROL McDOWELL iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge Professor Bill Freund the supervisor of th is thesis, being the person who introduced me, a mature student to the academic world. My sincere thanks are extended to him for his patience, unwavering support, guidance and interest in my work. My thanks and acknowledgement are extended to my wife Jenny, also for her support and patience during the period of thi s th esis, as well as being my cartographer producing the maps and graphs. Oth ers who were of great assistance were Professor Vishnu Padayachee and my friend Jeanne Hill of Cape Town. The enthusiasm of all those interviewed throughout South Africa and overseas stimulated and encou raged me and a specia l word of thanks is due to the immediate descendants of the families of the South African textile pioneers. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Mrs Norma Hatcher for her support and willingness in typing and preparing this document. iv ABSTRACT The aim of this thesis is to bring together scattered information about the South African textile industry in an endeavour to give its growth some semblance of order up to 1948.