Sources with the tag 'South Africa'

Greenmantle

Published in 1916, the novel Greenmantle was a wartime bestseller written by the English author John Buchan who also worked as a high-ranking propaganda official at the British propaganda office,…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: anti-colonialism, Camp, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, novel, orientalism, Propaganda, South Africa, Wellington House

The Execution of Josef Fourie

In this poem, the Dutch poet Albert Verwey criticises the execution of Boer rebel Josef Fourie by the pro-British government of South Africa. Verwey defends the rights of the Dutch-speaking Afrikaners…

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Themes: Race; Poem; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-British, Boer war, Dutch, Great Netherlands, Poem, poet, Race, South Africa, The Netherlands

To the American People

Dutch manifesto of the Holland section of the League of Neutral States directed at American citizens in December 1916.

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-German, Neutrality, Pacifism, Propaganda, South Africa, The Netherlands, United States

Song of the Greater Netherlands

In this poem, René de Clercq, one of the most popular Flemish poets of the era, celebrates his allegiance to the 'Great Netherlands'. During the war he took part in the German propaganda policy to…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Poem; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Belgium, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Flemish activism, Great Netherlands, Poem, South Africa, The Netherlands