Kungiyar Al'ummar Al'umma ta Afirka ta Kudu

Stanley G. Payne
Kungiyar NSDAP/AO ta isa Afirka ta Kudu a shekara ta 1932 kuma a sakamakon haka wasu kungiyoyi masu tausayin Nazi sun fito. Mafi shahara daga cikin waɗannan ita ce Ƙungiyar Al'ummar Al'umma ta Afirka ta Kudu (wanda kuma aka sani da Ƙungiyar Socialist Christian National Socialist Movement), wanda Louis Weichardt ya kafa a shekara mai zuwa. Stanley G. Payne kungiya mai tsananin adawa da Yahudawa, ta shirya Gryshemde a matsayin daidai da Sturmabteilung, ko da yake rigar launin toka ta kasance da alaka da kungiyar har aka yi amfani da ita ga harkar gaba daya. Ya bambanta da wasu kungiyoyin masu tsattsauran ra'ayi, Greyshirts ba su rabu ta hanyar harshe ba, sai dai sun nemi yin aiki tare da mutanen Afrikaans da masu magana da Ingilishi.Aletta J. Norval, Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse, p. 49

Tuta da brassard da Greyshirts ke amfani da shi wani bambanci ne a tutar Nazi Jamus ta amfani da launukan lemu, shuɗi da fari a cikin tsarin swastika na Nazi - an yi hakan da gangan don nuna launukan ƙasa na tutar Afirka ta Kudu a lokacin, "Oranje-blanje-blou" ,"South Africa's Nazi Party; the 'Gryshemde'"
Greyshirts sun yi gwagwarmaya don kiyaye haɗin kai kuma sun haifar da ƙananan ƙungiyoyi masu rarraba, irin su Johannes von Moltke na Afirka ta Kudu Fascists. Yawancin wadannan kungiyoyi sun hade ne karkashin inuwar Daniel François Malan lokacin da ya kafa jam'iyyarsa ta 'Purified' National Party, duk da cewa 'yan Greyshirts ba su shiga ba kuma sun yi takara a zaben 1938 kadai. Shawarar ta zama rashin hikima, duk da haka, yayin da Greyshirts suka kasa yin tasiri. Stanley G. Payne jam'iyyaar National Party ta kai wa ƙungiyar hari sosai, tare da wata kasida da ta fito a cikin Die Burger a watan Oktoba na 1934 tana cewa: ‘Mun yi imanin cewa wannan jam’iyya, wadda aka fi sani da Greyshirts, a ƙarƙashin rigar wata ƙungiya mai adawa da Yahudawa, tana ƙoƙarin samar da tsarin gwamnati mai haɗari a Afirka ta Kudu. Rigar Grey a matsayin manufarsu ta kafa wani ɗan kama-karya a Afirka ta Kudu.'Followers of Hitler

Shige da ficen Yahudawa daga Jamus na Nazi zuwa Afirka ta Kudu ya ƙaru sosai a cikin 1930s kuma Rigar Grey sun ƙaddamar da yaƙin neman kawo ƙarshen al'ada. Wata kungiyar Majalisar Yahudawan Jamus da ke Birtaniya ce ta yi hayar wani jirgin ruwa domin kawo Yahudawa da yawa zuwa Cape Town, lamarin da ya kai ga Rigar Grey ta shirya zanga-zangar adawa da matakin. Girman adawa ya kai ga Sarah Millin ta roki Jan Smuts da ya yi maganin Greyshirts, ko da yake an yi watsi da bukatarta Claudia Bathsheba Braude, 'Introduction', Contemporary Jewish Writing in South Africa: An AnthologyHakika, dangantaka tsakanin jam'iyyar National Party da Greyshirts ta inganta, da farko sakamakon wasiƙar 1937 daga Frans Erasmus, a lokacin Sakataren Jam'iyyar National Party, yana yaba wa Greyshirts don kawo "matsalar Yahudawa" a gaba kuma ta kai ga yawancin manyan Greyshirts kuma suna rike da membobin jam'iyyar National Party.

An lura da ayyukan a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, ko da yake Greyshirts sun ci gaba da wanzuwa kuma sun sake sanyawa kansu suna Jam'iyyar White Workers Party a 1949. Duk da haka, a wannan lokacin yawancin membobin sun rasa zuwa Ossewabrandwag ko Oswald Pirow's Proto-Fascist New Order, dukansu sun kasance sun kasance masu rinjaye kuma sun rasa magoya bayansu a kan mulki na kasar Herenig. shekaru 46 Brian Bunting, The Rise of the South African Reich, Penguin Books, 1969, pp. 64- bayan wannan batu, Greyshirts/WWP ya zama babban abin al'ajabi.

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