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The impact of world war two on South Africa

. In 1938 Afrikaners participating in the commemoration of the Great Trek which had established the Ossewabrandwag (Oxwagon Sentinel) as a paramilitary organization aimed at inculcating a "love for fa ... force if necessary, an Afrikaner-controlled republic in South Africa. By the end of the decade, the Ossewabrandwag claimed a membership of 250,000 out of a total Afrikaner population of a little more ...

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Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II