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“Survival in Justice”: An Afrikaner Debate over Apartheid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Hermann Giliomee
Hermann Giliomee
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University of Cape Town
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Within nationalist movements a tension typically exists between group demands for ethnic self-preservation and the more universal demands of religious belief, professional commitment, or academic vocation which confront particularly the intelligentsia in the group. Ethnic politicians tend to argue that decades or centuries of oppression or the anticipated disastrous consequences of a loss of self-determination makes loyalty to the group and its leadership's strategies a matter of overriding importance. It is usually exceptional individuals, often poets or novelists, who in times of crisis issue the challenge that survival be reconciled with universal values and prevailing international political norms.

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The Ethics of Difference
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 527 - 548
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1994

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