GESKREWE PROPAGANDA EN VOLKSVOORLIGTING AS WAPENS VAN DIE OSSEWA-BRANDWAG SE STREWE NA AFRIKANERNASIONALISME, 1939-1952. (Afrikaans)

Written propaganda and popular education as weapons of the Ossewa- Brandwag's Afrikaner nationalist pursuit, 1939-1952. (English)

The Ossewa-Brandwag (Ox-wagon sentinel) (OB); was a unique Afrikaner organisation with a nationalsocialist ideology influenced by the atmosphere of prevailing ideologies of the late 1930s and 1940s. Historiography contains little to no focus on propaganda as a weapon of the organisation's Afrikaner nationalist pursuits. The purpose of this study is to describe the OB's use of the written word as a method of propaganda. The official propaganda policy is described, and its implementation examined within the organisation's endeavour to advance its nationalist ideology. The author consulted primary material to analyse the OB against the organisation's official propaganda policy. This was done to gain a broader perspective on OB propaganda, evaluate the written word as propaganda in the organisation, and describe its success. It was found that the movement's propaganda was only partially successful because the organisation could not keep up with changing local and global conditions and failed to adjust internal policy following external change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) -- as Afrikanerorganisasie met nasionaal-sosialistiese ideologiese basis -- is al in baie akademiese studies deur historici ondersoek. Hierdie navorsing bevat egter min of geen fokus op propaganda as een van die belangrikste wapens van die organisasie se Afrikanernasionalistiese strewe nie. Die doel van hierdie artikel is om die OB se uitvoer van sy propagandabeleid, by wyse van spesifiek die geskrewe woord, te beskryf en te evalueer. Die pro pagandabeleid word uiteengesit en die wyse waarop propagandamiddele geïmplementeer is, word geanaliseer teen die agtergrond van die organisasie se nasionalistiese doelwitte en die amptelike propagandabeleid. Die studie maak gebruik van ʼn groot verskeidenheid primêre materiaal wat dui op die aard en implementering van die organisasie se propagandabeleid in geskrewe vorm. Die sukses van die propagandabeleid word ook bespreek. Die OB se propaganda was in hierdie verband slegs gedeeltelik suksesvol, aangesien die organisasie nie effektief genoeg voorsiening gemaak het vir veranderde eksterne omstandighede nie en ook versuim het om sy interne beleid aan te pas by veranderende SuidAfrikaanse en wêreldomstandighede. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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