10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACKVELDER»
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But the backvelder who has merely Nature to instruct him has a poor guide to
those qualities which arouse our trained admiration. None of those virtues we
extol — not esprit de corps, nor self-sacrifice, nor honesty, nor chivalry, nor
generosity, ...
Sarah Gertrude Liebson Millin, 1934
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The Contemporary Review
It would be absurd ro expect of the Dutch any love of the British Empire per se
and it is almost equally absurd to expect of the backvelder, at least — and the
backveld is the backbone — any comprehension of its advantages. General
Hertzog ...
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Selected Stories from the Southern Review
said, that backvelder tied to Tante Adela's apron, and the good dinner the dining
car had put up. “Give us your things,” Willie said. “What's this?” The mats were
tied up in a bit of newspaper. “Presents, man. I can't go back empty'handed.
Lewis P. Simpson, Donald E. Stanford, James Olney, 1988
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A Local Habitation: An Autobiography, 1945-90
A backvelder born, like myself, often has a stubborn belief that God made the
country and man made the town. But the results of the 1948 election and the
government which the backveld vote had put into power did give me some cause
for ...
5
The British World: Diaspora, Culture and Identity
In 1907, the 'backvelder', whom Wyndham did not bother to nurture, had little
appreciation for airs and graces.118 Instead of inspiring the appropriate sense of
awe he and Kromdraai became convenient punchbags. While all sides whipped
up ...
Carl Bridge, Kent Fedorowich, 2004
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Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 3, June ...
One must not always pander to the ignorance of the backvelder, but one ought
rather to attempt to educate them and to free them from Church domination.
When speaking above of the effect of the deportation on the Elections, I intended
to ...
Keith Hancock, William Keith Hancock, Jean van der Poel, 2007
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The Oral-style South African Short Story in English: A.W. ...
... Anthony Parsons (Bush Gypsies [1932]), Alice Werner (African Stories [1932]),
William Westrup (Old McBein [1937]), C.R. Prance (Tante Rebella's Saga: A
Backvelder's Scrap-book [1937]), and Frank Brownlee (Corporal Wanzi [1937]).
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Fiction and Truth in Transition: Writing the Present Past in ...
Another scene of high comedy is when, on one of the regular visits by National
Party representatives to recruit voters for the upcoming elections, Mol happens to
overhear what the two really think about the backvelder scum and confronts them
...
9
The Plough and the Sword
“Well now Superintendent, I did not think you would indulge in condescension.”
Embarrassment coloured Brighton's features. Kuschke continued, “Unfortunately
most people identify the Afrikaner with the backvelder. To us it is an indignity for ...
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The Petticoat Commando, Or Boer Women in Secret Service
One evening, soon after dusk, while he was engaged in his bakery, he heard a
timid knock at the door, which he opened, fully expecting to see a customer. To
his surprise he found there a Boer with a long, unkempt beard — a "backvelder,"
or, ...
