De Zuid-Afrikaan
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De Zuid-Afrikaan was a nineteenth-century Dutch language newspaper based in Cape Town that circulated throughout the Cape Colony, published between 1830 and 1930.
Christoffel Johan Brand, first owner and second editor of De Zuid-Afrikaan
Cape Dutch
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Cape Dutch, also commonly known as Cape Afrikaners, were a historic socioeconomic class of Afrikaners who lived in the Western Cape during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The terms have been
De Zuid-Afrikaan
…founded by the advocate Christoffel Johan Brand on 9 April 1830 and played a major role in providing a mouthpiece for the more educated sections of the Cape Dutch community. Carl Juta, founder of Juta publishers in Cape Town, and brother-in-law of Karl Marx, printed De Zuid Afrikaan. Marx wrote begging letters…
John Gilbert Kotze
Christoffel Brand, proponent for a Cape Dutch ethnic consciousness
Front page of an issue of the Afrikaanse Patriot