Apartheid’s regime drew genuine self-sacrifice from its committed white defenders.

Evidence

Like religious conviction, apartheid animates belief and conduct in and on its terms, prompting the committed to protect the convicting community above all else, to be guided if not driven by its terms, to give of oneself and to sacrifice others for the wellbeing of the committed, the brotherhood, the volk. The committed gave of themselves through service – intellectual, military, police, civil, even sports – renouncing material gain for the sake of communal uplift. Sacrifice – of oneself, of food, of others treated as if food – became a measure of conviction, a mark of committal. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1561

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The volk giving themselves ‘through service… renouncing material gain’ directly extends the ‘On Sacrifice’ treatment of how sacrificial donation stabilizes the sacrificer’s own identity and commitment.
• XREF: connects to: Complicity in apartheid is distinct from committed conviction; Apartheid functioned as a religious conviction demanding sacrifice and communal devotion; Apartheid functioned as a genuine theology, not merely a civic religion, centering racial sacralization — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1584

Broader Connections

• Apartheid functioned as a religious conviction demanding sacrifice and communal devotion #expands (0.85)
• Apartheid functioned as a genuine theology, not merely a civic religion, centering racial sacralization #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1584
• Complicity in apartheid is distinct from committed conviction #qualifies (0.72)