Apartheid's Festival

Witz, Leslie

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“…His attempts to include English speakers within a broader white South African cultural nationalism was epitomised by the inclusion of an English speaker in the 1949 Voortrekker Monument pageantry. 100 In the international arena, he perceived the advantages of Commonwealth membership in the face of growing international and UN hostility to his government's apartheid policies. He acknowledged the 'uniquely friendly relations existing between our country and the United Kingdom and other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations' and shortly after coming to power, attended the 1949 Commonwealth Conference at which he referred to the organisation as 'an inner circle with whom we have special ties.'…”

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Rebuffing Royals? Afrikaners and the Royal Visit to South Africa in 1947

Sapire

Grundlingh

2018

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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This article traces the responses of Afrikaners to the symbolism and political purposes of the 1947 royal visit to South Africa, the first post-war royal tour and the first visit of a reigning sovereign to any dominion. Taking place in the aftermath of a war which had caused political schism within Afrikaner ranks and stimulated radical populist nationalism, a royal tour intended to express the crown's gratitude for South Africa's participation in that war was bound to be controversial.Drawing on press, biographies and autobiographies, and archival sources in the UK and South Africa, this article argues that the layered reactions of Afrikaners demonstrates that even on the eve of the National Party's electoral victory of 1948 on a republican and apartheid platform, attitudes towards monarchy and the British connection were more fluid and ambiguous than either contemporary propaganda or recent accounts have allowed. The diverse meanings attributed to this iconic royal tour reveals a process of intense contestation and reflection about South Africa's place in an empire that was in the throes of post-war redefinition and transformation, and confirms recent characterisations of the 1940s as one of manifold possibilities such that outcomes such as the National Party victory was far from pre-determined.

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Rebuffing Royals? Afrikaners and the Royal Visit to South Africa in 1947

Sapire

Grundlingh

2018

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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“…The idea of an unadulterated Malay culture found its strongest advocate in the Afrikaner litterateur and university teacher Izak David du Plessis (1900Plessis ( -1981. In his capacity of Commissioner for Coloured Affairs, he had been instrumental in the creation of a number of semi-invented traditions, such as the famous Malay choirs (Shamil Jeppie 2001;Leslie Witz 2003; Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy 2016). His academic writings provided the ideological underpinnings for a legal reclassification of Cape Malays under the Apartheid State, distinct from Black and generic "Coloured" South Africans (Jeppie 1987(Jeppie , 2001Witz 2003).…”

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“…In his capacity of Commissioner for Coloured Affairs, he had been instrumental in the creation of a number of semi-invented traditions, such as the famous Malay choirs (Shamil Jeppie 2001;Leslie Witz 2003; Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy 2016). His academic writings provided the ideological underpinnings for a legal reclassification of Cape Malays under the Apartheid State, distinct from Black and generic "Coloured" South Africans (Jeppie 1987(Jeppie , 2001Witz 2003). From the 1990s, the Malaysian government introduced and promoted the concept of a South African "Malay diaspora" (Jeppie 2001;Muhammed Haron 2007).…”

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"Kanala, tamaaf, tramkassie, en stuur krieslam"; Lexical and phonological echoes of Malay in Cape Town

Hoogervorst

2021

Wacana

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Tom HoogervorsT is a historical linguist working at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). He is interested in Malay, Javanese, and other Austronesian languages, particularly in the insights their linguistic histories provide into forgotten episodes of inter-ethnic contact. He has previously looked at lexical borrowing between the languages of South and Southeast Asia. His latest monograph examines the plurilingual tradition of Indonesia's Chinese print entrepreneurs, whose "Sino-Malay" novels, newspapers, and poetry offer detailed portrayals of social life in late-colonial Java. He is also interested in Southeast Asian diasporic languages, cultures, and cuisines.

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Things of the Nation: Disorderly Heritage

King

2019

Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa

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Apartheid's Festival

Cited by 102 publications

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Rebuffing Royals? Afrikaners and the Royal Visit to South Africa in 1947

Rebuffing Royals? Afrikaners and the Royal Visit to South Africa in 1947

"Kanala, tamaaf, tramkassie, en stuur krieslam"; Lexical and phonological echoes of Malay in Cape Town

Things of the Nation: Disorderly Heritage

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