Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners
The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners ( afrikaans for 'community of real Afrikaans') was founded on August 14, 1875 in the house of Gideon Malherbe in Paarl with the aim of establishing Afrikaans as a written language. Founding members were the teacher Arnoldus Pannevis , Gideon Malherbe , the journalist DF du Toit (called Oom Lokomotief ), his brother Stephanus Jacobus du Toit , "doctor" DF du Toit, the printer Petrus Malherbe , August Ahrbeck and CP Hoogenhout , a Dutch immigrant.
The teacher Arnoldus Pannevis is considered the spiritual father of the community. He had noticed that most South Africans of Dutch descent could no longer speak correct Dutch . In the course of the then 200-year-old history of the Cape Colony, the language of the Dutch immigrants had already changed considerably under the influence of other European immigrants and the native languages (e.g. Khoikhoi and that of the Cape Malay ).
The Afrikaans Language Museum has been located on the first floor of the building since August 14, 1975 . The ground floor of the manor house is true to the original as it was at the time of the Malherbes, who lived here from 1860 to 1921.
From January 15, 1876, the cooperative was the first magazine in Afrikaans to publish Die Afrikaanse Patriot , initially only monthly, from 1878 then weekly. SJ du Toit was editor-in-chief of the magazine and from 1889 to 1904 even lived directly in the print shop on Hoofstraat (Hauptstrasse). After the bankruptcy in 1905, the Afrikaanse Patriot was replaced by the Paarl Post , which still exists today .
Web links
- Afrikaans Museum & Monument (Afrikaans or English)
- History of Paarl Post (English)