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England's position in the world was presented and discussed as though "Afrikanders" were no more interested in it than they were in that of any foreign country.
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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Schreiner for machinating to keep patriot Afrikanders off the oppressing
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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Majesty's Government to endeavour to swallow up the Republics, and it reminded the Afrikanders that God would assuredly defend the right.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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He said it depended on the Afrikanders themselves whether they would for ever continue to be ruled from Downing Street or become an independent nation.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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What the Levite concubine's outraged flesh was to Israel the infant mortality is to the Afrikanders of the Cape and Natal, who, a hundred thousand strong, may at any moment lose their self-control and throw in their lot with their brethren.
With Steyn and De Wet Philip Pienaar
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In Pretoria a further manifesto was issued, calling on Afrikanders to resist the British demands, and accusing Lord
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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Afrikanders, and really chosen because they know Dutch and Kaffir.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross
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Frankfort, for well we knew by this time what the passage of a British column meant for the defenceless non-combatants -- houses broken down and burnt, children and greybeards torn from their families, and all the other useless and unnecessary cruelties that have broken so many lives, converted so many joyous homesteads into tombstones of black despair, and imprinted into the very souls of many Afrikanders an ineradicable loathing and hatred of everything British.
With Steyn and De Wet Philip Pienaar
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We are Scots, English, Canadians, Australians and Afrikanders -- all strong individual peoples and stout arguers.
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But we Britishers, Canadians, Australians, Afrikanders and New Zealanders are tough all through, from Winston Churchill down to the little Cockney children who brag to each other that the bomb that fell in their street was the biggest ever.
Close to the War 1940
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