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| Title: | The Afrikaans language - Afrikanerizing instrument |
| Author: | February, V. |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Periodical: | African Perspectives |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 11-22 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | political conditions Afrikaans language |
| Abstract: | The author traces the historical role of Afrikaans within Afrikanerdom and he argues that one would have to go back to 1875 (the founding of the first Afrikaans Language Movement that laid the basis for a peculiar brand of Afrikaner nationalism) to understand the De Villiers Report (that advocated compulsory education for white children), the findings of the Eiselen Commission (retribalisation of the African) and later on, the De Vos Malan Commission findings (creation of the 'Coloureds' into a tribe) in order to fully comprehend the hatred against Afrikaans. Events at Soweto against Afrikaans as a language of instruction have blown these efforts of the Afrikaner to pieces; even among the 'Coloureds' there are increasing indications of a hostile attitude towards Afrikaans. Ref. |