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Erica Meijers, Blanke broeders—zwarte vreemden. De Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, de Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland en de apartheid in Zuid-Afrika 1948–1972 . Verloren, Hilversum 2008, 536 pp. isbn 9789087040376. €39.

Erica Meijers, Blanke broeders—zwarte vreemden. De Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, de Gereformeerde... Traditionally, the Dutch have special feelings for South Africa. In 1652 the Dutch East India Company founded a maritime station at the shores of Table Bay, which expanded into a colonial settlement, Dutch in language, law, and religion. Although British since 1814, most colonists (who called themselves Hollands-Afrikaander Boers or Afrikaners) clung to this Dutch heritage. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, thousands of them trekked north and established the Boer republics of Natalia, Orange Free State, and Transvaal. For preachers and teachers, these early republics were depended on immigrants from the Netherlands, where the Afrikaners were seen as family, stamverwanten (kin). Pro-Boer feelings ran high in the Netherlands during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 and sympathies for South Africa dominated the Dutch for many generations, welcoming the development of Afrikaner culture and nationalism.After 1948, however, these deep-seated pro-Boer sympathies were superseded rapidly by a general rejection of the policy of apartheid and stimulated a number of radical anti-apartheid organizations. Sympathy changed into aversion, love into hate. The traditional stamverwantschap had always been coloured by elements of Dutch cultural imperialism, and as the older partner in the ‘Greater Holland’ the Dutch felt their moral obligation to teach http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) Brill

Erica Meijers, Blanke broeders—zwarte vreemden. De Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, de Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland en de apartheid in Zuid-Afrika 1948–1972 . Verloren, Hilversum 2008, 536 pp. isbn 9789087040376. €39.

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Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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1871-241X
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10.1163/18712411-0X542879
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Traditionally, the Dutch have special feelings for South Africa. In 1652 the Dutch East India Company founded a maritime station at the shores of Table Bay, which expanded into a colonial settlement, Dutch in language, law, and religion. Although British since 1814, most colonists (who called themselves Hollands-Afrikaander Boers or Afrikaners) clung to this Dutch heritage. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, thousands of them trekked north and established the Boer republics of Natalia, Orange Free State, and Transvaal. For preachers and teachers, these early republics were depended on immigrants from the Netherlands, where the Afrikaners were seen as family, stamverwanten (kin). Pro-Boer feelings ran high in the Netherlands during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 and sympathies for South Africa dominated the Dutch for many generations, welcoming the development of Afrikaner culture and nationalism.After 1948, however, these deep-seated pro-Boer sympathies were superseded rapidly by a general rejection of the policy of apartheid and stimulated a number of radical anti-apartheid organizations. Sympathy changed into aversion, love into hate. The traditional stamverwantschap had always been coloured by elements of Dutch cultural imperialism, and as the older partner in the ‘Greater Holland’ the Dutch felt their moral obligation to teach

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