1st Edition

The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism Afrikaner Unity, the National Party and the Radical Right in Stellenbosch, 1934–1948

By Joanne L. Duffy Copyright 2006
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism is the first significant local study of National Party and Afrikaner politics.

    By focusing on Stellenbosch as a university and a town, the book extends our understanding of the complex interaction between the GNP/HNP and various organizations of the radical right. The book illustrates, at a local level and using detailed materials, how identity was constructed through a process of excluding some (English, Jew, Coloured) and including others. In addition, it examines the ways in which Afrikaner nationalists of all shades of political opinion conceptualized their relationships with English-speaking South Africans and the ways that the rhetoric of republicanism and anti-imperialism were employed by nationalists. The study exposes the complex and Byzantine nature of Afrikaner nationalist politics, revealing the multiplicity of identities and ideologies co-existing within Afrikanerdom, the cross-cutting allegiances and overlapping loyalties. It reveals further the extent to which branches of nationalist organizations were fragmented and to which even individuals could embrace contradictory ideologies.

    List of Tables

    List of Figures

    List of Illustrations

    Note on terminology

    Abbreviations

    Glossary

    Acknowledgment

    INTRODUCTION: An Historiographical Survey

    CHAPTER ONE: A Survey of Afrikaner Nationalist Politics at the National Level, 1934-1948

    CHAPTER TWO: Stellenbosch "Stands for an Idea"

    CHAPTER THREE: Electoral Politics and Stellenbosch’s Parliamentary Representatives

    CHAPTER FOUR: Kultuur Reclaimed: Afrikaner Nationalist Politics and the Stellenbosch District, 1934-1939

    CHAPTER FIVE: Stellenbosch Students’ Political Activities and Concerns

    CHAPTER SIX: Political Professors: Commissions, Committees and Manifestos

    CHAPTER SEVEN: The Politicization of the Everyday: Nationalist Afrikanerdom and the Politics of the Stellenbosch District, 1939-1948

    CONCLUSION

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    Joanne L. Duffy