Taal, kultuur en konflik in die Karoo : 'n historiese gevallestudie van blanke konflikte op Graaff-Reinet, circa 1904 - 1928

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this research is to develop a specific period in the history of thehistorically important Karoo town of Graaff-Reinet. The importance of the periodunder discussion lies in the fact that during the period in question, Graaff- Reinettersengaged in a series of socially divisive conflicts that divided the society on a racialbasis based on an individual's use of either Afrikaans or English. In the aftermath ofthe Anglo-Boer War, an Afrikaner nationalistic trend established a foothold on theAfrikaans speaking population of Graaff-Reinet and forced them to counter thedominance of an Imperialist and British viewpoint that had been dominant in societyup to that point. This was done by fighting for the importance of Afrikaans as alanguage as opposed to English. These two groups of language speakers engaged in aseries of literal and metaphorical frictions within different sections of society,including on a political level well as in the education of students. Apart from theconflicts between the Afrikaans and English speaking population, this research willalso examine the occurrence of conflicts within the Afrikaans community of Graaff-Reinet regarding the loaded decision about what language to use from the pulpit. Inshort this research examines the origin and development of Afrikaner nationalism inGraaff-Reinet during the period after Unification, but more than that and on a muchdeeper level it also looks at the social tendencies that manifested itself within thisrelatively small and rural Karoo society.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University