The Nationalist slogan encapsulated their mission: “Eie volk, eie taal, eie land”—Our own people, our own language, our own land. In the distorted cosmology of the Afrikaner, the Nationalist victory was like the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land. This was the fulfillment of God’s promise, and the justification for their view that South Africa should be a white man’s country forever. The victory was a shock.
