"At the heart of Afrikaner nationalist struggle was the attempt to imagine a new national community with its language enjoying parity of esteem with English in the public sphere. ... This meant that Afrikaans had to be heard in parliament, the civil service, schools, colleges and universities, and in the world of business and finance; it had to be the medium of newspapers, novels, and poems, giving expression to what was truly South African. Instead of English-speakers portraying Afrikaners in reports, novels or histories as everything they were not: unrefined, semi-literate, racist, dogmatic, and unprogressive, Afrikaners had to define and represent themselves as the true South Africans."
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Mac Maharaj in The Foundational Study: African Leadership – Afrikaner Leadership Experience, III. The Manifestations of Afrikaner Leadership 3. Afrikaner Identity and Cultural Transformation (ca 2006), O'Malley – The Heart of Hope, Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
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