Browsing by Subject "Afrikaner women"
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‘Die hand aan die wieg regeer die land [The hand that rocks the cradle rules the land]’: Exploring the Agency and Identity of Women in the Ossewa- Brandwag, 1939–1954
(Unisa Press, 2015)The Ossewa-Brandwag (Oxwagon Sentinal) was an Afrikaner nationalist organisation strongly influenced by the dominant Fascist ideologies between the two world wars. Within a few years the organization became a mass movement ... -
Doing gender is unavoidable: Women’s participation in the core activities of the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1938-1943
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013)Afrikaner women played a major role in the Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) movement in South Africa from 1939 to 1954. Women participated in a range of activities as part of the OB Women's Division. As an organisation born out of ... -
From fund-raising to Freedom Day: the nature of women’s general activities in the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1939-1943.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) was a mass-movement that originated as a result of the euphoria created by the 1938 Centenary Celebrations of the Great Trek in South Africa. With far-reaching and very ambitious aims the OB was ... -
"Goddank dis hoogverraad en nie laagverraad nie!" : die rol van vroue in die Ossewa-Brandwag se verset teen Suid-Afrika se deelname aan die TweedeWêreldoorlog
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2012)The Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) was a mass-movement opposed to South Africa's participation in the Second World War on the side of Britain. Thousands of Afrikaners saw the OB as a movement in which they could express their ... -
Integrating Afrikaner women’s history in senior secondary school CAPS through an evaluation of women’s “sense of independence”
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)In 2011 the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) for History at senior secondary school level was released. The content selection was directly influenced by the notion that History supports citizenship within ... -
"Kan die vrou haar volk dien deur haar huis?": Afrikanerpolitiek en vrou in die Ossewa-Brandwag, 1942 tot 1954
(University of the Free State, 2015)The “Ossewa-Brandwag” (OB or Oxwagon Sentinel) was a mass-movement of Afrikaners following a non-party political strategy in order to gain power in a white dominated South Africa. The organisation, which gained its highest ... -
Party politics jeopardised the credibility of the Women’s National Coalition for Afrikaner women in the organisation.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)• Opsomming: Die Women’s National Coalition (WNC) is in 1992 amptelik gestig en was ‘n inisiatief van die African National Congress Women’s League. Die doelwitte van die WNC was om inligting oor vroue se behoeftes en ... -
“Skep julle kommando’s in reddingslaers om! Een vir almal, almal vir elkeen!”: Die Ossewa-Brandwag se maatskaplike beleid van Sosiale Volksorg, 1943-1952
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Established as an organisation with the aim to influence all aspects of Afrikaner life, the Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) made an impact on the lives of thousands of Afrikaners between 1939 and 1954. At the very start the movement ... -
Untold history with a historiography: a review of scholarship on Afrikaner women in South African history
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)In ‘The Rise and Fall of Afrikaner Women’ (2003), Gilliomee argues that Afrikaner women’s history ‘is the biggest untold story of the Afrikaner people’, and in doing so ignores the research on Afrikaner women’s history. This ... -
Volksmoeders, spinwiele en wol : 'n historiese verkenning van die aard van vrouearbeid in die Ossewa-Brandwag
(2014)Die Ossewa-Brandwag (hierna OB) was 'n Afrikanernasionalistiese organisasie, meegesleur deur die ideologiese Zeitgeist van die era tussen die twee Wêreldoorloë. Die OB se doel was om alle fasette van die Afrikaner se ...