Nêrens anders in my lewe het ek die hand van die Here so duidelik bemerk soos in die studie wat ek onderneem het nie. In 1969 het ek n beroep na die Gereformeerde gemeente Zastron in die Suidoos-Vrystaat aanvaar. Op daardie stadium het die gemeente bestaan uit 99 belydende lidmate, versprei oor 6 distrikte. Spoedig na my intrek in die nuwe gemeente het daar n daling in die lidmatetal voorgekom sodat die voortbestaan van die gemeente in gedrang gekom het. En so het ek na een jaar en vier maande se bearbeiding aldaar weer van Zastron vertrek. Maar daar moes ek in aanraking kom met die gesin Olivier wat in 1948 uit Argentinië na Suid-Afrika teruggekeer het. Op hierdie stadium was ek reeds besig met nagraadse studie met kerkgeskiedenis as hoofvak. Ek moes n onderwerp vind waaroor ek ʼn verhandeling moes skryf. Dit was hier in Zastron, rondom die “asados” wat ek saam met die gesin geniet het, wat dit my te binne geskiet het: "Maar wat van die kerkgeskiedenis van die Afrikaners in Argentinië? Dit is n terrein wat nog nooit vantevore deur iemand gedek is nie”. My opgewondenheid was groot. Dit was soos die ontdekking van 'n ryk diamantmyn, en sonder veel inspanning kon ek reeds die een na die ander diamant na buite bring waarin die volmaaktheid van God se raad ook t.o.v. Sy kerk in Argentinië geblyk het. / Thesis (MTh)--PU vir CHO.

Nêrens anders in my lewe het ek die hand van die Here so duidelik bemerk soos in die studie wat ek onderneem het nie. In 1969 het ek n beroep na die Gereformeerde gemeente Zastron in die Suidoos-Vrystaat aanvaar. Op daardie stadium het die gemeente bestaan uit 99 belydende lidmate, versprei oor 6 distrikte. Spoedig na my intrek in die nuwe gemeente het daar n daling in die lidmatetal voorgekom sodat die voortbestaan van die gemeente in gedrang gekom het. En so het ek na een jaar en vier maande se bearbeiding aldaar weer van Zastron vertrek. Maar daar moes ek in aanraking kom met die gesin Olivier wat in 1948 uit Argentinië na Suid-Afrika teruggekeer het. Op hierdie stadium was ek reeds besig met nagraadse studie met kerkgeskiedenis as hoofvak. Ek moes n onderwerp vind waaroor ek ʼn verhandeling moes skryf. Dit was hier in Zastron, rondom die “asados” wat ek saam met die gesin geniet het, wat dit my te binne geskiet het: "Maar wat van die kerkgeskiedenis van die Afrikaners in Argentinië? Dit is n terrein wat nog nooit vantevore deur iemand gedek is nie”. My opgewondenheid was groot. Dit was soos die ontdekking van 'n ryk diamantmyn, en sonder veel inspanning kon ek reeds die een na die ander diamant na buite bring waarin die volmaaktheid van God se raad ook t.o.v. Sy kerk in Argentinië geblyk het. / Thesis (MTh)--PU vir CHO.

Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009. / Full text also available online. Scroll down for electronic link.

M.A (Historical Studies) / Please refer to full text to view abstract

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 331-341). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Proefschrift--Leiden. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2004. / Bibliography: leaves 345-359.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Journalism and Media Studies March 2019 / The 1930s and 40s marked a tumultuous political period in South Africa. Central political players and their respective parties, whether government, opposition, extra-parliamentary or other all jostled for power. Socio-economic and political events locally and on a global scale merged with religionationalistic ideology to mobilise Afrikaners into a collective and to form a maelstrom within which antisemitism flared up in the country. This rise of antisemitism created a serious ‘Jewish Question’ in South Africa and is the entry point for this research paper which takes a closer look at the reasons for the content of the opinion piece that Verwoerd, as editor of this Nationalist Party paper, penned in the first edition of Die Transvaler in October 1937, namely the ‘Nationalist viewpoint on the Jewish Question: the solution’ which effectively championed economic antisemitism. It also looks more in depth at the media libel case between Verwoerd and The Star and finds that there were multiple instances of falsification of news in the court case that found Verwoerd guilty of promoting Nazi propaganda and making his paper a tool for the Nazis during the Second World War. The outcome of this research directly links Dr. H.F. Verwoerd’s negative portrayal of the Jewish Question in Die Transvaler with the intent to mobilise Afrikaner Nationalism in the lead up to the 1948 elections. / NG (2020)

Includes bibliographies. / As a feminist exploration of the problematic relationship between Afrikaans women and Afrikaner nationalism, this thesis is primarily concerned with the construction of the social identities of Afrikaans women between 1919 and 1931, the crucial formative years of Afrikaner nationalism. The relationship between women and Afrikaner nationalism is thus addressed by an investigation at the level of intellectual history. The emergence of Afrikaner nationalism at the beginning of the 20th century was accompanied by the articulation of a distinctive gender discourse, the study of which is central to this thesis. Within this discourse, which may be termed the "volksmoeder" discourse, a new identity and new roles were contrived for Afrikaner women. We first investigate the social and historical context in which the discourse was generated and then analyse the "volksmoeder" discourse itself by focusing on texts from Die Boerevrou, a women's magazine launched by Mabel Malherbe in 1919. Rather than taking the Die Boerevrou-texts for granted or seeing them as simple reflections of reality, they are investigated as constructions. The questions of why these particular constructions had appeared in that specific context and what ends they achieved are posed. Rather than simply taking the discursive constructions at face value they are construed as "answers" to certain underlying social and historical issues. On a theoretical level the problem of the construction of gender and ethnic identities is informed by recent work in the field of discourse analysis, while the imagining or invention of nation-communities is discussed with reference to the work of Benedict Anderson, Ernst Gellner, Eric Hobsbawm and Tom Nairn. The investigation of Die Boerevrou-texts as particular articulations of the volksmoeder discourse shows how the social identities of Afrikaans women were socially constructed in the volksmoeder discourse. It suggests that the social subjectivities of Afrikaans women were by no means simple or transparent. In the texts of Die Boerevrou it becomes clear that even while being shaped by Afrikaner nationalism, women themselves were active in the shaping of Afrikaner nationalism. While they were constituted as subjects in the anti-feminist discourse of Afrikaner nationalism, they remained mobile within this discourse: always negotiating, planning, creating and articulating new identities and roles for themselves. The image of women as passive victims of a male Afrikaner discourses is thus denied. However, it is asserted that the volksmoeder discourse as a gender discourse can and should be severely criticised from a feminist perspective.