Abstract

The history of the Dutch settlers (later to become the Afrikaners), bound to their strong Calvinistic beliefs, became the cornerstone of white South African history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Great Trek (the emigration from the Eastern Cape Colony into the interior of Southern Africa by some 12,000 to 14,000 Dutch-speaking farmers between 1834 and the early 1840s) is regarded by Afrikaners as a central event of their history and the origin of their nationhood. It was during The Great Trek that the Afrikaans language and their unique culture developed. It was during this period that the Afrikaners’ attitude toward the British hardened and the Afrikaner philosophy of apartheid (separateness) was formulated. It was during The Great Trek that the Afrikaners came to believe that they were a “chosen race” and that it was their “manifest destiny” to populate the areas north of the Orange River.

Highlights

  • THE NATIONAL PARTY COMES TO POWERIn 1948, the Afrikaner National Party won the all-white general election based on the apartheid platform

  • The history of the Dutch settlers, bound to their strong Calvinistic beliefs, became the cornerstone of white South African history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

  • It was during The Great Trek that the Afrikaners came to believe that they were a “chosen race” and that it was their “manifest destiny” to populate the areas north of the Orange River

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Summary

THE NATIONAL PARTY COMES TO POWER

In 1948, the Afrikaner National Party won the all-white general election based on the apartheid platform. A minister in Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Church believes that God in His wisdom so disposed it that the first White men and women who settled at the foot of the Black Continent were profoundly religious people, imbued with a very real zeal to bring the light of the gospel to the heathen nations of Africa. These first South Africans lit a torch which was carried to the farthest corners of the subcontinent in the course of the last three centuries and whose light shines upon the greater part of all non-White peoples south of the Equator.. The church acknowledges the basic rights of the State as a particular divine institution to regulate the lives and actions of its citizens

THE IMPLEMENTATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF APARTHEID
RELIGIOUS OPPOSITION TO APARTHEID
THE END OF APARTHEID AND THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
CONCLUSION
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