"The white solders were very good and thoroughly liked and respected the black troops, but nonetheless they were white Afrikaner South Africans with everything that entails.
The opposition Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) party, representing Afrikaner interests, accused Zuma of causing polarisation and lodged a charge of hate speech with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).
And the cheers of the Nationalist rank and file more than made up for the coolness of their leaders.This, however, could be attributed, as it has, in fact, been attributed by Nationalists, to traditional Afrikaner hospitality, hospitality which is accorded to every visitor, august or humble.
Afrikaner Nationalists, knowing how the Coloureds come in to the world, are divided in what to do with them: there is a strong movement in the Cape to give them direct representation in parliament.
She was the child of an Afrikaner family that belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church.
The Union of South Africa, only four years old in 1914, had just emerged from the bitter Anglo-Boer War which saw the Afrikaner minority defeated by the British.
Random House South Africa; 286 pages; 90 randAn Afrikaner poet attends South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The Afrikaner party, founded by General Hertzog after he broke with General Smuts in 1939, and led by the moderate Mr Havenga, who was Minister of Finance in the Smuts-Hertzog Coalition, has joined forces with the Nationalists.
Israel within its 1967 borders has international legitimacy; no white South African state could ever have claimed as much; beyond a few Afrikaner zealots the idea would have been a non-starter.
Most of the drivers I ask about life after apartheid are non-committal, and seem quite pleased to see the back of me.My one Afrikaner driver seems positively relaxed, although he says the end of apartheid has hit Afrikaners particularly hard.
GOVERNORS of South Africa's central bank used to be old, white, Afrikaner men in suits.
