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Society to promote the Afrikaans language
Front page of Die Afrikaanse Patriot, a journal published by the GRA
The
Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners
(
Afrikaans
for "Society of True Afrikaners") was formed on 14 August 1875 in the town of
Paarl
by a group of
Afrikaans
speakers from the current
Western Cape
region. From 15 January 1876 the society published a journal in Afrikaans called
Die Afrikaanse Patriot
("The Afrikaans Patriot") as well as a number of books, including grammars, dictionaries, religious material and histories.
Die Afrikaanse Patriot
was succeeded in 1905 by today's Paarl newspaper.
[1]
Arnoldus Pannevis
, a teacher, is generally considered to be the spiritual father of the society. He had observed that most of the South Africans from
Dutch
descent could not speak the "pure" form of their original mother tongue anymore. In the course of its (then) 200-year-old history, the language of the immigrants from the
Netherlands
had been thoroughly changed by the influence of other
European
immigrants, indigenous tribes such as the
Khoikhoi
, and especially the
Cape Malays
. In 1874 Pannevis expressed these views in the journal
de Zuid-Afrikaan
[2]
under the title "
Is die Afferkaans wesenlijk een taal?
"
[a]
The eight founding members were Gideon Malherbe, the Dutch immigrant CP Hoogenhout, DF du Toit
AF
(nicknamed
Dokter
, i.e. "Doctor"), a journalist coincidentally named Daniel Francois du Toit
AF
(nicknamed
Oom Lokomotief
, i.e. "Uncle Locomotive"), his brother
Rev SJ du Toit
, August Ahrbeck, Petrus Malherbe and SG du Toit.
[3]
Everybody except Hoogenhout and Ahrbeck were related. Many of them were of
Huguenot
descent.
On 14 August 1975 the
Afrikaans Language Museum
was opened in the former house of Gideon Malherbe in Paarl, the building in which the Society was founded. The
Afrikaans Language Monument
was also opened in Paarl in 1975, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society.
References
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- ^
English translation:
Is Afrikaans actually a language
; modern Afrikaans translation: "
Is Afrikaans eintlik 'n taal?
"
- ^
"Paarl Post: About us"
. Paarl Post. Archived from
the original
on 15 December 2007
. Retrieved
29 May
2011
.
- ^
van der Merwe, H.J.J.M. (1970).
Herkoms en Ontwikkeling van Afrikaans
[
Origin and Development of Afrikaans
] (in Afrikaans). Johannesburg: Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel. p. 54.
- ^
Kreitzer, Amanda.
"Agtergrondartikel Die Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners"
[Background to the Association of True Afrikaaners].
De Roepstem
(in Afrikaans)
. Retrieved
3 February
2011
.
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