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Recent Afrikaner Historiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

F. A. van Jaarsveld
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In 1961, when the Union of South Africa became a republic, I wrote in ‘Interpretations and Trends in South African Historical Writing’: ‘The Afrikaner had won the constitutional struggle against the Briton but at the very moment that he was about to reap the rewards of his victory in a new Republic, he stood confronted with the challenge of a non-white majority, threatening to deprive him of his gains […] A national myth has already become established - that South Africa is an innocent nation and the victim of attack in an evil world, and that attempts to solve the racial problem by territorial divisions or separate development are “misunderstood”.’

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Itinerario , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1992, pp. 93 - 106
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1992

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