Hertzogism, noun

/ˈhɜːtzɒɡɪzm/
Origin:
EnglishShow more The name of the chief proponent of language equality, J.B.M. Hertzog + English abstract noun-forming suffix -ism.
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Among English-speakers: a pejorative name for the Afrikaner nationalist movement or philosophy which demanded that Dutch be afforded full equality with English in education.
1910 E. Prov. Herald 15 Apr.It will require the willing co-operation of like-minded men from end to end of South Africa who will only be fighting their own battles in grappling with Hertzogism.
1910 Rand Daily Mail 31 May 2Mr. Sheffield said he would do his best to see that the Education laws were properly looked after. They did not want Hertzogism in the country. (Loud applause.)
1911 Rand Daily Mail 4 Dec.Well this stick of suspicion had been taken away from the clique but they got hold of another — the so-called Hertzogism.
1913 V.R. Markham S. Afr. Scene 193Hertzogism is an unfortunate manifestation, but through some such phase South Africa had doubtless to pass before the final adjustment between the races could take place.
1968 E.A. Walker Hist. of Sn Afr. 542‘No Hertzogism’ had been the rallying cry of the Free State British in the election of 1910. Hertzog was thus the bogey of the British and the idol of the Free State Afrikaners when Parliament essayed to guide the Provinces in the way they should go in the matter of language in the schools.
1973 F.J. du T. Spies in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. VIII. 367In 1908 Hertzog successfully introduced the so-called Hertzog Educational Bill in the Legislative Council, whereby school attendance was made compulsory between the ages of 7 and 16, mother-tongue education was prescribed up to Std. IV, and equality of both languages thereafter. This aroused strong British criticism and led to the term ‘Hertzogism’.
a pejorative name for the Afrikaner nationalist movement or philosophy which demanded that Dutch be afforded full equality with English in education.
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