To a great extent, the development of the shared history of ‘die Volk” was the main reason for the growth of nationalism among the Afrikaans people in the early twentieth century. But, to a lesser extent, it was the promotion of the Afrikaner economic and cultural interest and the use of religious conviction that shaped Afrikaner nationalism in the firth half of the 1900s.
The unification of ‘die Volk” through the shared history carved the road to Afrikaner nationalism in the early twentieth century. The establishment of Afrikaner nationalism started during the Great Trek, where Afrikaans speaking people moved away from the Cape Colony because of The British Rule, thus disuniting and fracturing the Afrikaner society (Source A). But in 1838 a the Battle of Blood River the Afrikaans soldiers promised themselves to God and they won (Souce B). This then established the idea that they really were…show more content… The tow Anglo-Boer wars also contributed to strengthening Afrikaner Nationalism by the Afrikaans people challenging British rule and fighting against them (Source A). But it was the second Anglo-Boer War, otherwise known as the South African War, where Afrikaans women and children were subjected to the British Concentration Camps (Source A). Through the fractured communities and hardship of the Great Trek to the pain and suffering of the Afrikaans women and children, poets and writers were able to fuel inspiration for the documentation of their history (Source B). through their writing they were able to inspire and unite their people: using the romanticized stories of their Voortrekker ancestors, Piet Retief and Andries Pretorius, that sold out almost instantaneously (Source B). and holding a centennial celebration of the Battle of Blood River by restaging the journey, using wagons, from
