'Not in my namers' display courage

To those who experienced apartheid, it is almost impossible to believe that Afrikaners, as a people, have been some of the most democratic in the world.

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But that democracy was only applicable to their own volk, as South African history shows us, with its myriad examples of Broedertwis (which literally means “conflict between brothers”).

There were plenty of such conflicts over the years, the seminal one being that which sparked the Great Trek away from the Cape by Afrikaners who could not tolerate the system there. Even today, descendants of those Afrikaners occasionally refer, pejoratively, to those who stayed in the colony there as “Cape Dutch”.