All 34 Uses of
Afrikaner
in
Long Walk to Freedom
- The National Party's campaign centered around the swart gevaar (the black danger), and they fought the election on the twin slogans of Die kaffer op sy plek (The nigger in his place) and Die koelies uit die land (The coolies out of the country)—coolies being the Afrikaner's derogatory term for Indians.†
Chpt 2.8Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- The Nationalists, led by Dr. Daniel Malan, a former minister of the Dutch Reform Church and a newspaper editor, were a party animated by bitterness—bitterness toward the English, who had treated them as inferiors for decades, and bitterness toward the African, who the Nationalists believed was threatening the prosperity and purity of Afrikaner culture.†
Chpt 2.8
- The policy was supported by the Dutch Reform Church, which furnished apartheid with its religious underpinnings by suggesting that Afrikaners were God's chosen people and that blacks were a subservient species.†
Chpt 2.8Afrikaners = South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- In the Afrikaner's worldview, apartheid and the church went hand in hand.†
Chpt 2.8 *Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- The Nationalists' victory was the beginning of the end of the domination of the Afrikaner by the Englishman.†
Chpt 2.8
- In the distorted cosmology of the Afrikaner, the Nationalist victory was like the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land.†
Chpt 2.8
- For the first time in South African history, an exclusively Afrikaner party led the government.†
Chpt 2.8
- His great-grandfather had been a chief in the Orange Free State, and had greeted the Afrikaner voortrekkers of the nineteenth century with open arms and gifts of land, and then been betrayed.†
Chpt 2.8
- While she was in prison Winnie became friendly with two teenaged Afrikaner wardresses.†
Chpt 3.10
- As a result, they attracted a great deal of attention and it was soon widely known that two Afrikaner wardresses from the Fort had visited Winnieand me.†
Chpt 3.10
- AT THE FORT I was being supervised by Colonel Minnaar, a courtly Afrikaner considered something of a liberal by his more verkrampte (hard-line) colleagues.†
Chpt 5.15
- One night, to my astonishment, I observed Colonel Minnaar, who was the head of prison, and a well-known Afrikaner advocate come to fetch him.†
Chpt 5.15
- Underneath this Afrikaner hero is a quotation from one of his speeches.†
Chpt 5.20
- Hanson said the judge would do well to recall that his own people, the Afrikaners, had struggled violently for their freedom.†
Chpt 5.23Afrikaners = South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- He was a white Afrikaner, a creature of the South African system and mind-set.†
Chpt 5.23Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- As an Afrikaner whose conscience forced him to reject his own heritage and be ostracized by his own people, he showed a level of courage and sacrifice that was in a class by itself.†
Chpt 6.25
- Stern and God-fearing, the Afrikaner takes his religion seriously.†
Chpt 7.36
- Reverend Andre Scheffler was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Africa, a sister church of the Dutch Reformed Church, the faith of nearly all the Afrikaner people.†
Chpt 7.36
- During the trial, I advised Bram not to take this route, stressing that he served the struggle best in the courtroom, where people could see this Afrikaner son of a judge president fighting for the rights of the powerless.†
Chpt 7.42
- I raised the question of our release and reminded him of the case of the 1914 Afrikaner rebels, who had resorted to violence though they were represented in Parliament, could hold meetings, and could even vote.†
Chpt 7.44
- Both visits were authorized by the new minister of justice, Kobie Coetsee, who appeared to be a new sort of Afrikaner leader.†
Chpt 8.52
- They were all sophisticated Afrikaners, and far more open-minded than nearly all of their brethren.†
Chpt 8.57Afrikaners = South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- Like most Afrikaners, they thought that because many of the Communists in the ANC were white or Indian, they were controlling the blacks in the ANC.†
Chpt 8.57
- The prison service provided me with a cook, Warrant Officer Swart, a tall, quiet Afrikaner who had once been a warder on Robben Island.†
Chpt 8.59Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- He seemed to me to be the very model of the old-fashioned, stiff-necked, stubborn Afrikaner who did not so much discuss matters with black leaders as dictate to them.†
Chpt 8.61
- I mentioned that I had recently read an article in an Afrikaans magazine about the 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion, and I mentioned how they had occupied towns in the Free State.†
Chpt 8.61
- He made them for precisely the opposite reason: to ensure power for the Afrikaner in a new dispensation.†
Chpt 9.68
- His attitude was like that of many Afrikaners who simply believed that black tribes had been killing each other since time immemorial.†
Chpt 9.70Afrikaners = South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- Upon my return to Johannesburg I learned that the police had arrested a member of the militant right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), a Polish immigrant to South Africa who had been captured after a courageous Afrikaner woman had phoned the police with the killer's license plate number.†
Chpt 9.72Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- Upon my return to Johannesburg I learned that the police had arrested a member of the militant right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), a Polish immigrant to South Africa who had been captured after a courageous Afrikaner woman had phoned the police with the killer's license plate number.†
Chpt 9.72
- A white woman, of Afrikaner origin, risked her life so that we may know, and bring to justice this assassin......Now is the time for all South Africans to stand together against those who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his life for—the freedom of all of us.†
Chpt 9.72
- The Conservative Party described the resolutions as hostile to Afrikaner interests.†
Chpt 9.73
- A group called the Afrikaner Volksfront, led by General Constand Viljoen, a former chief of the South African Defense Force, was formed to unite conservative white organizations around the idea of a volkstaat, a white homeland.†
Chpt 9.73
- February 12, 1994, was the deadline for registration of all parties, and on that day, Inkatha, the Conservative Party, and the Afrikaner Volksfront failed to sign.†
Chpt 9.74
Definition:
South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers; previously called Boers