Afrikaner

woman of color with only an elementary-level education, had to fight Afrikaner creditor Mietjie Skaarnek’s claim to hundreds of Rand in the first case to question legally enforced seizure of civilian property. Additionally, the white-led Nedbank received court permission to avoid the constitutional right of Elsie Gundwana to fair housing and evict Ms. Gundwana from her home, like the situation under Apartheid, when the Afrikaner National Party (ANP) bulldozed townships such as District Six, on…

Ministers of the Boer republicans Paul Kruger threatened war against the British if they didn’t withdrawal their troops. Eventually, Britain thought that this would be an easy victory and accepted the war. However, the British underestimated the Afrikaners capabilities and had a series of defeats and turned to Canada for help. This impacted Canada socially because this was Canada’s first foreign battle with Britain. If Canada wasn’t part of Britain’s colony then Canada wouldn’t have to get…

In the film ‘Invictus,’ the director Clint Eastwood describes Morgan Freeman’s character, Nelson Mandela as an inspiring, pure and hardworking leader by standing up for his own beliefs and follows his vision of excluding racial inequality from South Africa. Mandela is revealed to us as a determined man who shows great defiance through particular scenes within the film and is shown to us through the use of camera shots and dialogue. We can see that he is defiant and has determination from the…

Limitations to Well-being Consequently, there are limitations to Robert Gifford’s concepts about psychological well-being. First, the research informing these needs is likely biased by Eurocentric and individualistic ideologies. Hence, it may not be applicable to collectivist nations. Another limitation is regarding the assumed simplicity and universality of these needs. Each of the variables included in this analysis are subject to different interpretations depending upon culture,…

The ways in which we physically carry ourselves in the world, the traces left by our voices, can reveal some of the architecture of who we are. We are physical bodies, experiences, minds, thoughts, actions, words and stories. Our bodies and voices can name the source of some of our experience. In searching for the true “naming” of what makes a person who they are, I am pulled back into somatic memory and called to reflect on my experiences with martial arts. At a young age I was drawn to the…

an environment which emphasized and practiced equality between the two races. This concept is vividly expressed in nature as revealed in the opening scene of the film of two giraffes uniting underneath a tree, symbolizing the unification of the Afrikaners and the…

Gender is defined as “[A] set of socially constructed, assigned behaviors and identity patterns which are often perceived to be intertwined with and/or equivalent to one’s sexual biology. In fact, gender is constructed and fluid, having multiple meanings across cultures, geographies, communities, and individuals” (GenEq). Unlike the biological and physiological characteristics that define sex, gender is a socially constructed, fluid identification of oneself. It’s more than the duality of either…

Missionaries started to set up missions with different peoples throughout the country. However, tensions between the Basotho people and the Afrikaner, people of mixed European descent who spoke Dutch, after they settled in the Free State province to the west of Lesotho. In order to prepare for any potential conflict, King Moshoeshoe I reached out to missionaries and asked that they live among…

This paper sets out to analyze, through André Brink’s The Rights of Desire, white South Africans’ resentment over the new dispensation in South Africa. Even though the race-based ideology of apartheid was devisedand implemented by people of Afrikaner extraction, there were many amongst white South Africans who were relentless in their scathing condemnation of the immorality of institutionalized racism. André Philipus Brink, Nadine Gordimer, J.M.Coetzee and BreytenBreyten Bach, to name but a few,…

My Traitor’s Heart by Rian Malan continuously explores the contrast between the white South African and black South African experiences. The Braaivleis initially is presented as a “profound cultural ritual” (107) started by early Afrikaner settlers. This piece of culture proves very important because it is an essential piece of the beginnings of white settlers history in South Africa. However, the contrasting experiences that Malan frames the Braaivleis with provides perspective into the true…