The game is not an incidental part of Afrikaner culture, like cricket is to the English.
He went on to study at the great Afrikaner university of Stellenbosch, under Hendrik Verwoerd.
But with his greatest achievement behind him, the 61-year-old Afrikaner has been powerless to halt his own party's decline.
But because of the commission's reluctance to make an Afrikaner martyr of him, nobody expects him to suffer serious punishment.
In a speech to the Palestine Center in April 2010, for example, Mearsheimer distinguished between "righteous" Jews and "New Afrikaner" Jews.
The comments have been condemned by Afrikaner groups, who want her fired.
The people manning it, from another Afrikaner outfit with similar views to Mr Terre'Blanche's, were collecting registrations for an all-white election next year.
ECONOMIST: The ideas of a murdered racist leader are almost dead too
South African Women's Minister Lulu Xingwana has apologised for saying that Afrikaner men were raised to believe that women and children were their property.
Last year, when he sought to relaunch the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (better known by its Afrikaans initials, AWB), only a few hundred people turned up.
ECONOMIST: The ideas of a murdered racist leader are almost dead too
The old National Party inflamed historical grievances, both against the British and against black South Africans, to foster Afrikaner unity and to keep itself in power.
The migration of millions of black South Africans, begun by the British a half century before, had been accelerated by the land seizures of the Afrikaner government.
South Africa possibly satisfied him most: the Afrikaner cabinet and ANC officials, trained separately by him in negotiation workshops, agreeing to end apartheid without resorting to violence.
For locals the most popular order is vetkoek (pronounced fet-cook and literally meaning 'fat cake'): an Afrikaner pastry that's a bit like a savoury doughnut, filled with mince.
An Afrikaner poet attends South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
One is a modernising Afrikaner, who led the Nats' negotiations to end apartheid and was a bold would-be reformer of a party still set in its Afrikaans-speaking ways.
Even the recently formed United Democratic Movement, an effort by an Afrikaner, Roelf Meyer, and an African, Bantu Holomisa, to gather multi-racial support, is favoured by just 4% of voters.
An attractive and popular preacher, he soon became a moderator in the church and, at 25, the youngest-ever member of the Broederbond, the secret Afrikaner society his father had helped form.
It was an 83.5-carat diamond and it gave birth to one of the world's most powerful multinationals, De Beers, named for Afrikaner brothers who owned a farm on top of a diamond pipe.
The monument in Bloemfontein mourning the Boer women and children who died in the camps became one of the two holiest sites of Afrikaner nationalism, along with the shrine to the trekkers outside Pretoria.
But the tragedy deepened after many centuries of abuse by Europeans, when, in 1948, the election of the right-wing Afrikaner party led to laws that separated people of color from the rest of the population.
For example, Athol Fugard, the internationally acclaimed Afrikaner playwright who wrote the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi and The Road to Mecca, a play about the local artist Helen Martins, found his muse in this scenic corner of the Karoo.
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