Apartheid created a self-referential Afrikaner ideological world via schools, clubs, and churches

Evidence

In May 1948, the National Party came to power with the vision of a ‘new’ South Africa to be ‘built around a new hierarchy with Afrikaner identity at the core’. Afrikaners were ‘encapsulated in a network of schools, social clubs, churches, [and] cultural and business organizations which created a self-referential Afrikaner ideological world’. The impact of this complex network of religious and educational institutions cannot be overstated, since it ‘dominated the historical consciousness of most Afrikaners’. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 15

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The encapsulation mechanism is key to the reader’s question: whether such a hermetically self-referential identity circuit can survive losing political power, or dissolves without the state to feed it.
• XREF: connects to: Apartheid originated as a church self-governance doctrine generalized across the whole polity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1515; Apartheid ideology framed Afrikaner rule as divine calling and destiny — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1536; Apartheid’s ideology rested on God-ordained separate-but-equal racial development — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1507 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Apartheid ideology framed Afrikaner rule as divine calling and destiny #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1536
• Apartheid originated as a church self-governance doctrine generalized across the whole polity #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1515
• Apartheid’s ideology rested on God-ordained separate-but-equal racial development #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1507
• Afrikaner nationalism sacralized ethnic identity as a divine calling to rule southern Africa #expands (0.75) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 14