Afrikaner in a sentence

His English-language works utilize primarily Afrikaner characters and highlight the many contradictions in Afrikaner society during the first half of the twentieth century.

Steve Hofmeyr has expressed concern about the statistically high murders of Afrikaner farmers, and has also appealed in several speeches to remember Afrikaner heritage.

These musicians sought to redefine Afrikaner identity, and although met with opposition from the authorities, Voëlvry played to large crowds at Afrikaans university campuses and was quite popular among Afrikaner youth.

He insisted that the current Palestinian predicament “amounts juridically to a situation of apartheid” — the Afrikaner term for the enforced legal segregation of South Africa’s Black majority by a white minority regime for most of the twentieth century.

This was two years after the between Great Britain and two independent Boer (Dutch Afrikaner) republics.

D-Naff started singing in 1990 at Jan Jonker Afrikaner Secondary School under the Glamour Boys band, which led him to become a gospel artist.

In 1986, while still in prison, Mr. Mandela chose Mr. Bizos as his confidential emissary to brief exiled members of the A.N.C. on secret negotiations with the Afrikaner authorities.

In the Cape, dishes appear to live dual lives of the enslaved and oppressors: koe'sisters and koeksisters, Cape Muslim and Afrikaner versions of bobotie, sosaties and bredies.

One can track a direct ideological through-line from Petzer and Hofmeyr today, back to Eugène Terre'Blanche and groups like the Ossewabrandwag, which fused Nazism with Afrikaner nationalism.

They therefore financially or morally support openly racist organisations such as Afriforum and Solidariteit as well as the establishment of the Afrikaner-only town, Orania.

Some of the more obvious issue-based images include Rosetta Msimango’s picture of students hurling back tear gas canisters during the Fees Must Fall protests and Jacques Nelles photo of an elderly gun-wielding Afrikaner from Nelles’s “White Fear” series.

Kallie Kriel, CEO of Afrikaner interest group Afriforum, said members “will not sit back and watch while their properties are being stolen”.

Testifying yesterday, Kleinbooi claimed he did not know his co-accused, and that while he had gone to school with Afrikaner, he did not fraternise with him.

African creole people in the early 18th century — documented on the cases of Hendrik Bibault and patriarch Oude Ram — were the first to call themselves Afrikaner (Africans).

Africa South Africa seeAlso Apartheid The Apartheid government, as a matter of state policy, favoured white-owned, especially Afrikaner -owned companies.

Afrikaner directly translated means "African," and thus refers to all Afrikaans-speaking people in Africa who have their origins in the Cape Colony founded by Jan Van Riebeeck.

Another theory suggests that Captain Jonker Afrikaner named Windhoek after the Winterhoek Mountains at Tulbagh in South Africa, where his ancestors had lived.

At the time, some Rhodesians said the still embittered history between the British-dominated Rhodesia and the Afrikaner -dominated South Africa partly led South African government to withdraw its aid to Rhodesia.

By becoming a protectorate, Basotholand and its inhabitants were not subjected to Afrikaner rule, which saved them from experiencing Apartheid, and so generally prospered under more benevolent British rule.

Even though the Afrikaners are a small group (10%) within the white minority group, Afrikaner recipes are popular.