to stimulate the economy in all sectors‚ stimulate Afrikaans Nationalism‚ to greater independence for South Africa and to make South Africa safe for the white people. In the area of economic development the Pact Government made a great contribution to the development of the Union. Most people working in the agricultural sector were Afrikaans and by putting effort into stimulating the sector‚ he also stimulated the advancement of the Afrikaans nation. An export marketing body was set up in order
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Afrikaans /æfrɪˈkɑːns/[3] is a West Germanic language‚ spoken natively in South Africa‚ Namibia and to a lesser extent in Botswana and Zimbabwe. It is an offshoot of several Dutch dialects[4] spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa‚ where it gradually began to develop independently in the course of the 16th century. Hence‚ historically‚ it is a daughter language of Dutch‚ and was previously referred to as "Cape Dutch" (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape
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Grade‚ all students were required to study Afrikaans (a derivative of Dutch). If students failed either English‚ Math or Afrikaans they were required to repeat the entire school year. At the same time‚ in the same city‚ Afrikaans speaking families were sending their children to Afrikaans schools where they were required to pass English classes. By the time I got to middle school‚ I was fluent in both languages and elected to attend a predominantly Afrikaans school. Once I got to high school‚ I switched
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A main character in the film ’Cry Freedom’ directed and produced by Richard Attenborough was Donald Woods. Donald Woods is a 41-year-old white Afrikaan editor. He is married with 5 children‚ 2 girls and 3 boys. They all live together in a huge mansion with a pool in the yard. They also have an African maid named Evelyn. He has greying hair‚ glasses and a cheerful personality. He also considered himself a white liberal. At the beginning Donald Woods was blind and ignorant to what Stephen Biko‚ black
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Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking. New York‚ New York: Rizzoli International Publications‚ Inc. Irving Kolodin (1975). The Interior Beethoven: A Biography of the Music. New York‚ New York: Alfred A. Knope. Alfred Einstein (1969). A Short History of Music. (4th ed.) New York‚ New York: Alfred A. Knope. Felix Greissle‚ eds. The International Library of Piano Music. (Album 14) New York‚ New York: The University Society‚ Inc.
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the following realities‚ some quite different to what I had expected. - More Older generation and retired folk Wrong; in a group of approximately 40 people‚ I would say only 20% were in the age groups of 50 to 80 years old. All were from the Afrikaans or English speaking white population and made up more women than men.A smaller group than I would
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further inland so as to avoid conflict. As time passed‚ a particular group of people started to form a nationalistic pride as they felt that they were a different kind of people and developed into what we know them as today as the; Afrikaans. For a long time period‚ the Afrikaans people who were referred to as ‘The Boere’ were in conflict with the English and many battles took place. This caused the black people to either flee or fight and in most times the blacks approached the different
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this is plagued by a brutal system of racial repression that dominated much of its history. South Africa was a stunning example of a modern nation where a minority had such a great deal of power over a staggering majority. The word Apartheid is Afrikaans for separateness. This separateness was South Africa’s legal system of racial segregation that was enforced from 1948 until 1994. The way this system worked was that citizens where broken down into four racial classifications and received benefits
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“The existence of different languages was recognised and perversely celebrated to legitimise the policy of “separate development” that formed the cornerstone of apartheid...The use of language policy as an instrument of control‚ oppression and exploitation was one of the factors that triggered the two great political struggles that defined South Africa in the twentieth century – the struggle of the Afrikaners against British imperialism and the struggle of the black community against white rule”
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break a coconut‚ never stands still Yoruba Proverb Afrikaans is the world’s youngest language with a grammar all of it own. Afrikaans draws from Dutch‚ French and Flemish‚ but pays homage only to Afrika‚ the motherland. It is a language with an uncanny ability to beat a description out with a dull instrument. An elevator’ is a lifting-box’‚ gatvol’‚ a rather crass term meaning fed up’‚ literally means full hole’ and the traditional Afrikaans sport bokdrolletjiespoeg means "buck droppings’ spit"
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