Special Report Transcript Episode 16, Section 2, Time 05:42

Their tactics were essentially peaceful. Two delegations led by Sol Plaatjie to Britain to appeal to the British crown achieved nothing to turn the tide of events. The symbolic great trek of 1938 marked an upsurge of Afrikaner nationalism. In 1948 the National Party won the election and for the first time the cabinet under the leadership of D. F. Malan was constituted entirely of Afrikaners. // As the Western world recovered from WWII and the shock of Nazism they also recovered from the racist philosophies so popular during the twenties and the thirties. Not the Afrikaners.

Notes: Photo: Sol Plaatjie; Film footage: Symbolic great trek; Cape Times: ‘Smuts out: U.P loses the election’ ; Film: NP cabinet ; Film footage: WWII

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