<i>boere into Boere</i> (farmers into Boers): The so‐called great trek and the rise of Boer nationalism

Kriel, Mariana

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“…The Great Trek was the name given to the emigration from the Cape Colony by groups of Boers (farmers) that sought to escape British rule in the 1830s–1840s. And the honorific title ‘Voortrekkers’ was given to these Boers as recognition of their pioneering spirit and republicanism (Kriel, 2021: 4). One of these parties of Voortrekkers took a vow to honour God if granted deliverance from their enemy, the AmaZulu army.…”

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Propagating Afrikaner nationalism: The Voortrekker stamps as icons of an ideology, c.1933–1949

Baines

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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This paper posits the importance of visual representations in cultivating a national consciousness among white Afrikaners in South Africa. It provides a case study of stamps issued to commemorate the centenary of the Great Trek in 1938 that sought to raise awareness of and funds for the Voortrekker Monument project. Although stamps are, ordinarily, symbols of banal nationalism, the Voortrekker stamps resonated strongly with the sentiments the Afrikaner volk (people). They reified an iconography of the Voortrekkers and the narrative of the Great Trek already embedded in a canon of texts, images and rituals. The paper provides a semiotic reading of the designs of the stamps and shows how they shaped the cultural imaginary of Afrikaners. Although the Voortrekker stamps were issued with the approval of the postal authorities, they were actually commissioned by the Sentrale Volksmonumentekomitee [Central People's Monuments Committee (SVK)], which had close ties to the National Party (NP) opposition. Although the project was largely state sponsored, the SVK insisted upon its autonomy. Thus the government sanctioned a project over which it exercised no jurisdiction. The United Party paid a price for accommodating sectional Afrikaner interests when it lost control of the state in 1948.

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Section: Afrikaner Nationalism and Anniversary Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Propagating Afrikaner nationalism: The Voortrekker stamps as icons of an ideology, c.1933–1949

Baines

2023

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boere into Boere (farmers into Boers): The so‐called great trek and the rise of Boer nationalism

Abstract: This paper challenges the claim, as articulated by NormanEhterington, that the so-called Great Trek was not "an act of national self-assertion by Boers in rebellion against British rule" (2001:258). Whilst affirming the scholarly con-

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Propagating Afrikaner nationalism: The Voortrekker stamps as icons of an ideology, c.1933–1949

Propagating Afrikaner nationalism: The Voortrekker stamps as icons of an ideology, c.1933–1949

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