Maria Elizabeth Rothmann

Maria Elizabeth Rothmann, penname M.E.R. (28 August 1875 – 7 September 1975) was an Afrikaans writer, and co-founder of the Voortrekkers youth movement. Her unique contribution to Afrikaans literature was an ethical didactic, cultural historic review of a bygone Afrikaans society. Quotes English culture and traditions were cultivated in us … from very young it was drilled into me that whatever is English, is good; whatever is Afrikaans, is less good… I learned to believe in British fair play, British justice, British honour, the English gentleman. It pointed in a lightning-like decisive moment where we had been led to – a denial of who and what we were, to exchange that with a fake who and what of a different nation, something false and useless. Upset, but preserved, we survived this time of stupidity. Simple thing, Love for one’s own people and a desire to make of them a healthy, intelligent and honorable people; sadness about backwardness on any terrain over which these three characteristics should govern. External links https://www.thejournalist.org.za/pioneers/m-e-rothmann-vintage-feminist/ Category:Women authors from South Africa Category:1875 births Category:1975 deaths Category:Novelists from South Africa Category:Centenarians Category:Women born in the 1870s