HIST 439 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Afrikaner Nationalism, African Nationalism, Afrikaner Broederbond
Document Summary
The shock of apartheid and the rise of the anti-apartheid movement. A white-ruled dominion in the british empire: the union of south africa: union of south africa formed (1910) from british colonies of cape and natal + Empire but it was ruled only by white men: after 1910, prime ministers were all afrikaners, but british men also had official positions and british south africans especially had economic power. What kept afrikaner leaders awake at night: the poor white problem &the black peril . The poor white problem : leaders worried that afrikaners were suffering relative to british south. Africans: longstanding concerns about poor farmers; new concerns about new. What did apartheid mean in the 1948 election: literally: separateness , word used increasingly by afrikaner church and political leaders during the. Separate development : bantu education act, 1953, promotion of bantu self-government act, 1959, bantu homelands citizenship act, 1970.
