Collection H

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    Die Afrikaner en die demokrasie I : die negentiende eeu
    (Historical Association of South Africa, 2002) Scholtz, Leopold; Scholtz, Ingrid
    This is the first of two articles in which the authors try to establish at least part of the reasons why the Afrikaners, with their strong democratic antecedents of the nineteenth century, became the perpretators of undemocratic practices after 1948. The pioneer circumstances of the nineteenth century and the regard for patriarchs produced the possibility of both a democratic and an authoritarian development. Calvinism as a source of Afrikaner political thought is largely discarded by the authors, but the Enlightenment played a significant role in the nineteenth-century political theory. However, it appears that the patriarchal tradition won from the pioneer situation and the Enlightenment, as the legislatives of the two Boer republics jealously protected their powers and claimed full and unfettered powers inbetween elections.
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    Voelvlug van 'n Afrikanergeskiedenis van 350 jaar
    (Historical Association of South Africa, 2001) Giliomee, Hermann B.
    Bird's-eye view of an Afrikaner history over 350 years The formation of an Afrikaner people can be best understood as the outcome of certain forces: a relative balance between the sexes in the white population after 1725; the role of the church and the relatively strong position of white women. the unfolding of South African history can be understood in terms of C.W. de Kiewiet's dictum of South Africa as a country of low grade land, low grade gold and low grade people. the first refers to the fact that only a small part of South Africa is arable. It led to migrants farmers dispersing over a large area and becoming dependent on black and brown labour. Low grade gold sucked large numbers of workers to the Witwatersrand and reinforced the trend towards heavy use of migrant black labourers. By low grade people De Kiewiet meant the lack of qualifications of a large part of the labour force, including Afrikaner workers. This was the background against which the policies of segregation and apartheid were introduced.
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    Wretched folk, ready for any mischief : the South African state's battle to incorporate poor whites and militant workers, 1890-1939
    (Historical Association of South Africa, 2002) Giliomee, Hermann
    The article deals with the manner in which the Afrikaner poor whites in the last decade of the nineteenth century started the process of gravitating towards the urban centres where they became part of an urban proletariat. Political and community leaders tried to ensure a preferential dispensation for them in comparison with the blacks of South Africa. Attention is given to the process of industrialisation and the manner in which it was possible for the government to promote industrial development and provide these people with employment.