DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism

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Lindie Koorts. DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism

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and The Rise of Afrikaner

Lindie Koorts

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Rhodes was the only member of the Cape Cabinet who knew about the invasion. Hofmeyr – who found out about the raid a day later – was furious that he had been made a fool of, especially since his supporters now felt that he had erred in his judgement when he decided to work with Rhodes. He immediately repudiated Rhodes, who was forced to resign as prime minister.[99]

Naturally, this meant that Kruger was vindicated and could successfully portray himself as the legitimate leader of a wronged and threatened state. In the Cape, the newspaper Ons Land, under the editorship of F.S. Malan, began to write about the Afrikaners’ need for spiritual rebirth and the need to prevent contamination by the ‘spirit of materialism which flows in on us from Europe’. P.J.G. de Vos, one of Malan’s professors at the Stellenbosch seminary, published a series of articles in Ons Land under the title ‘Nationale Vraagstukken’ (National Questions). In these articles, he used the Jameson Raid as proof of the Englishman’s fundamental disrespect for the Afrikaner, and called on the Afrikaners to recover their self-respect, prize their language, and return to their Bibles.[100] All of this was lapped up by the young Malan in Stellenbosch during his daily reading of the newspapers.

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