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The Ideology of a Chosen People: Afrikaner Nationalism and the Ossewa Trek, 1938
Author(s) -
Templin J. Alton
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1354-5078.1999.00397.x
Subject(s) - cape , battle , nationalism , ideology , zulu , history , destiny (iss module) , gender studies , settlement (finance) , ethnology , ancient history , political science , sociology , law , archaeology , politics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , astronomy , world wide web , computer science , payment
. Perhaps the most important happening in South African history was the Great Trek, the massive movement of people, goods, wagons, north from the eastern Cape Colony into what became the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. These Voortrekkers migrated between 1834 and the end of the decade. On the way they developed distinctive beliefs concerning their destiny, their relation to God and their relation to the African groups with whom they had serious conflicts. A major battle between better‐armed Afrikaner forces and Zulu warriors ended in triumph for the Afrikaners on 16 December 1838. This formed the basis of a national holiday for the Afrikaners, and for the nation of South Africa.