Massacres, torture and utterly senseless targeting of anyone perceived to be a threat to
Afrikanerdom, ruled out any notion of justice and equality, let alone democracy.
Grundlingh, A (2008), "'Are We Afrikaners Getting Too Rich?': Cornucopia and Change in
Afrikanerdom in the 1960s", Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol 21, No 2-3, pp 143-165.
According to Malan, Leroux laid bare the ideology underpinning
Afrikanerdom, revealing "die ideologie agter en in die Afrikaner se sosiopolitieke, religieuse en moreel-filosofiese diskoerse tot in sy wese" ("the ideology behind and inside the Afrikaner's sociopolitical, religious and moral-philosophical discourses right down to the bone").
As a girl growing up in Stellenbosch, the bastion of
Afrikanerdom and by extension apartheid, Melanie was insulated from the other South Africa outside the white areas.
It was typical of Mandela to march headlong into a bastion of white
Afrikanerdom -- in this case the temple of South African rugby -- and make its followers feel they belonged in the new South Africa.
For he had marched headlong into a bastion of white
Afrikanerdom — the temple of South African rugby — and made its followers feel they belonged in the new South Africa.
Today, a focus on
Afrikanerdom and racism in the making of contemporary society often neglects processes of social change, how people try to make sense of their lives and integrate change into their daily lives (Blaser 2008).
Moodie, T.D., [1975], The rise of
Afrikanerdom. Power, apartheid, and the Afrikaner civil religion, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London.