Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities
Jurisdiction
Republic of South Africa
Headquarters
Pretoria, South Africa
Constitutional body executives
Johann Wingard, Chairman
Dirk Viljoen, Vice-chairman
Key documents
Accord on Afrikaner self-determination
Constitution of South Africa Amendment Act 2 of 1994
Volkstaat Council Act 30 of 1994
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
Repeal of the Volkstaat Council Provisions Act 30 of 2001
The Volkstaat Council (Afrikaans: Volkstaatraad) was an organisation of 20 people, created by the South African government, to serve as a constitutional mechanism to enable proponents of the idea of a Volkstaat to constitutionally pursue the establishment of such a Volkstaat.[1]
^"Chapter 11". Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. 1993. Archived from the original on 11 February 2007. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
A Volkstaat (Afrikaans pronunciation: [fɔlkstɑːt], "People's State"), also called a Boerestaat, is a proposed White homeland for Afrikaners within the...
The VolkstaatCouncil (Afrikaans: Volkstaatraad) was an organisation of 20 people, created by the South African government, to serve as a constitutional...
including Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, started to promote the idea of a Volkstaat that would be established in the Northern Cape region. In January 2010...
Union (MWU). In 1994, he served on the VolkstaatCouncil, which investigated the potential of an Afrikaner Volkstaat. In 1997, he became CEO of the MWU....
Guardian, 4 July 2007, Retrieved 9 June 2017. FF LEADER THRILLED BY `VOLKSTAAT' RURAL COUNCIL, South African Press Association , Retrieved 9 June 2017 Results...
population by establishing a 20-member "VolkstaatCouncil" to look into the possibility of creating a "Volkstaat" as an autonomous territory for Afrikaans...
Assembly until the Constitution of South Africa, 1996 was adopted. VolkstaatCouncil South Africa 1994–1999 National Constituent Assembly Asamblea Nacional...
culture through the creation of an all-White Afrikaner state known as a Volkstaat. The town is generally described by outside observers and scholars as...
1990 of Orania, an Afrikaner settlement intended as the beginning of a Volkstaat. Boshoff admitted his disappointment that Orania had only 810 residents...
2018. Muthien, Yvonne G.; Khosa, Meshack M. (1995). "'The kingdom, the Volkstaat and the New South Africa': Drawing South Africa's new regional boundaries"...
Der Volkstaat in June–July 1871 followed by Der Vorbote in August–October 1871. A separate pamphlet edition was also published by the Volkstaat in Leipzig...
Khoikhoin Indigenous Traditional Council, First Indigenous Nation of South Africa (FINSA) Status: Unrecognized Volkstaat Ethnic group: Afrikaners Proposed...
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self-determination into practice. In September 1993 this committee recommended a Volkstaat solution incorporating Pretoria, parts of the Transvaal, and northern...
fruitless negotiations with the African National Congress (ANC) to create a Volkstaat making the party lose its importance. It would also receive increased...
Conversation. 3 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2020. "Gen. Constand Viljoen". Volkstaat.net. Boerevolkstaat. 16 May 2011. Archived from the original on 29 November...
nationalism and the creation of an independent Boer-Afrikaner republic or "Volkstaat/Boerestaat" in part of South Africa. During bilateral negotiations to...
"Italian Volunteer Legion (The English War 1899–1902) – Piet Rudolph". volkstaat.net. Archived from the original on 17 October 2018. Retrieved 17 October...
van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge Orania Suid-Afrikaanse Noodhulpliga Volkstaat Voortrekkers (youth organisation) White nationalism White South Africans...
Revolutionary Council, which focused on both political and military aspects of the internal anti-apartheid struggle. Notably, the Revolutionary Council included...
protests by South African students in 1968 in response to a decision of the council of the University of Cape Town (UCT) to rescind anthropologist Archie Mafeje's...
government permitted Orania, Northern Cape, to become an independent Volkstaat. By then, a former State President, P. W. Botha warned of an Afrikaner...
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) is an interdenominational forum in South Africa. It was a prominent anti-apartheid organisation during the...
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