... A Cultural Conundrum? Old Monuments and New Regimes: The Voortrekker Monument as Symbol of Afrikaner Power in a Postapartheid South Africa Albert Grundlingh This article addresses the ambiguities of historical symbolism and the processes...

..., a time open to ethical inquiry about the time before. The search for the postapartheid ethical is the project of Afrikaner writer Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull, a poetically journalistic account of the South African Truth and Recon- ciliation Commission (TRC) from 1996 to 1998.1 Adapted...

...-Victorian empire and proved to be unexpectedly hard going. For the defeated Boer republicans of the Transvaal and the the Orange Free State, the ruthlessness with which Britain prosecuted its war inflicted a deep kind of historical trauma upon modern Afrikaner society. For all inhabitants...

... Afrikaner historiography. More scholarly nationalist histories emerged in the 1930s and 1940s by C.J. Uys, C.F.J. Muller, and H.B. Thom. Several commentators have recently pointed out that Macmil- lan and de Kiewiet paid far more attention than later liberal his- torians to social and economic...

... thought out. The descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa-the Afrikaners-developed a low culture variant- inchoate, inconsistent, rooted in isolation and the frontier. When challenged, Southern planters extended their racism into a sectional ideology in direct opposition to another high...

..., where celebrations and ceremonies were witnessed by many thousands of people. The first re- enactment was a key symbolic event in the upsurge of Afrikaner Nationalism that culminated ten years later in the National Party gaining power. From the outset, the celebrations marking...

... was itself the roduct of the movement's history as much as of research into it."1g For example, Jack and Ray Simons were preoccupied by the threat to trade union unity posed in the 1940s by Afrikaner nationalists, a very vocal group that in fact represent a small minority within the trade union...

... and 1980s, and once again today, point to the key role of biopolitics to imagining an inclusionary urbanism.22 I begin, however, with Afrikaner dispossession and with the way in which Victorian expertise was brought to bear on what the British called Burgher Camps during the South African War. 76...

..., especially the Protestant parts, felt con- nected with the Boers, so it was rather difficult. And they understood that — many of them I think — apartheid was wrong, but it had to be built up step-­by-­step. But there was a natural sympathy for the Boers, for the Afrikaners? Yeah...

... for the British occupiers. Memories of war crimes long persisted. White historians depict black leaders as Christianized, middle-­class, naive, and loyal, but empire loyalism had more to do with awareness of tougher rule under Afrikaners than belief in any British “liberators.” Seme and Dube were not so...

... it presented in great detail the networks of Afrikaner nationalist influence that exerted powerful control over the apartheid state, Bunting’s book did little to extend historical analysis of racial domination in South Africa. It was, in essence, more of a continuation of the anti­ fascist campaigns...

... the state in South Africa. In the face opf popular resistance, the hegemony of Afrikaner Nationalism has collapsed and the state now gropes for a coherent ideology palatable to the demands of the Right as well as to "reform"-minded international capital. The tenets of dominant historiography...

.... He has written extensively on war and society, Afrikaner social history, and South African historiography. Amy Kesselman is professor of women’s studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the author of Fleeting Opportunities...

.... He has written extensively on war and society, Afrikaner social history, and South African historiography. Amy Kesselman is professor of women’s studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the author of Fleeting Opportunities...

... History Review Issue 106 (Winter 2010)  d o i 10.1215/01636545-2009-030 © 2010 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 215 216  Radical History Review not a simple patriotic duty but a stand with domestic political implications: the increasingly ascendant White Afrikaner...

..., recording not only multiple voices of prominent South Africans but also the stories of those who testified and who heard their testimony. She chronicles her own wrenching reactions to the crimes uncov- ered, and her relationship to them as an Afrikaner. Krog’s work, which mixes report- ing...

... Conservative Afrikaner Christians worshipping in DRC churches were not merely seeking political gains through theological justifications — they believed them, held faith in them, acted on them. Similarly, when a multiracial group of churchmen declared apartheid a heresy in 1985, they were thinking...

... Africa’s Voortrekker Monument dur- ing the transition to a postapartheid government. He discusses how the Voortrekker Monument created a permanent site celebrating Afrikaner nationalism, which embodies the legacy of European settlement and the conquest...

... and political domination in complex ways. Afrikaner nationalists have constructed elaborate myths of origin and of national progress and redemption such as the Afrikaaner epic of the Great Trek These and other blatantly ethnocentric and often overtly self-interested interpretations of history have...

... interpretations of the past emanate from a range of ac- tivists on the South African scene. To all, from the fascist leader of the AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) to student comrades and worker poets, history is a resource of mobilization, a political weapon activists used to advance current...