All 16 Uses of
Afrikaner
in
Cry, the Beloved Country
- Englishman or Afrikaner, they could move nothing from the places where he put them.†
Chpt 1.8Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- He recognized it as the police-car from Ixopo, and it would probably be Binnendyk on his patrol, and a decent fellow for an Afrikaner.†
Chpt 2.18
- Indeed Ixopo was full of Afrikaners now, whereas once there had been none of them.†
Chpt 2.18Afrikaners = South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- For all the police were Afrikaners, and the post-office clerks, and the men at the railway-station, and the village people got on well with them one way and the other.†
Chpt 2.18
- His own father had sworn that he would disinherit any child of his who married an Afrikaner, but times had changed.
Chpt 2.18 *Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- The war had put things back a bit, for some of the Afrikaners had joined the army, and some were for the war but didn't join the army, and some were just for neutrality and if they had any feelings they concealed them, and some were for Germany but it wasn't wise for them to say anything about it.†
Chpt 2.18Afrikaners = South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- You know he spoke Afrikaans like an Afrikaner?†
Chpt 2.19Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- But he thought he ought to know it, so he took lessons in it, and went to an Afrikaner farm.†
Chpt 2.19
- Half the Afrikaners in the country would be out of work.†
Chpt 2.21Afrikaners = South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- Especially the Afrikaners.†
Chpt 2.21
- — I just want to tell you that when father says Afrikaners he means Nationalists.†
Chpt 2.21
- But it would save a devil of a lot of money, if Afrikaners could only see that bilingualism was a devil of a waste of it.†
Chpt 2.23
- And he went round the books again, past the case full of Abraham Lincoln, and the case full of South Africa, and the case full of Afrikaners, and the case full of religion and sociology and crime and criminals, and the case full of poetry and novels and Shakespeare.†
Chpt 2.24
- One can be born an Afrikaner, or an English-speaking South African, or a coloured man, or a Zulu.†
Chpt 2.24Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- One can hear, as I heard when I was a boy, that there are more Afrikaners than English-speaking people in South Africa, and yet know nothing, see nothing, of them at all.†
Chpt 2.24Afrikaners = South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers
- I am lost when I balance this against that, I am lost when I ask if this is safe, I am lost when I ask if men, white men or black men, Englishmen or Afrikaners, Gentiles or Jews, will approve.†
Chpt 2.24
Definition:
South Africans whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers; previously called Boers