HIST 439 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Afrikaner Broederbond, Afrikaans Language Movement, Afrikaner Nationalism
Document Summary
Apartheid and the birth of the anti-apartheid movement. The poor white problem : afrikaners worried that they were poorer than british, longstanding concerns about poor farmers; new concerns about new. The black peril : afrikaners were equally threatened by the growing presence of black south. The afrikaner national party and wwii: in 1939, prime minister hertzog called for neutrality: many afrikaner nationalists were too anti-british to support the allies, and some afrikaner nationalists were. Africans terribly at home: during and after the war, the anc was growing . Nations and un: segregationist, but he accepted that african urbanization would continue, many afrikaners felt that the british had too much power in his administration, ran against national party candidate daniel malan: malan was a dutch reformed. Church minister, running on platform of apartheid: malan"s victory was close, but a surprise, united party won more votes but national party won the election because of over-representation of votes from rural districts (gerrymandering)
