South African History Online's reference article on the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC/NGK) in South Africa. States Jan van Riebeeck's 1652 founding of the church at the Cape, its deepening entanglement with Afrikaner identity and politics, its theological support for apartheid after 1948, its 1980s expulsion from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches over that support, and the church's 1986 shift toward repentance, welcoming Black members back and later labelling apartheid a sin.
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AuthorSouth African History Online
PublisherSouth African History Online
Publication Year2026
The article carries no visible publication or last-updated date; 2026 is recorded as the year of access, the same convention this atlas applies to Wikipedia's own undated living pages. URLhttps://sahistory.org.za/article/dutch-reformed-church-drc
Source Typereference article
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An unsigned article from South African History Online, a nonprofit public history education organization rather than a community-edited wiki. Tier 2, matching this atlas's convention for named institutional reference publishers against fully anonymous crowd-edited pages. NotesUsed for the Dutch Reformed Church's 1652 founding, its apartheid-era theological patronage, its 1980s expulsion from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and its 1986 turn toward repentance.
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This source names Dutch Reformed Church directly: "Online's reference article on the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC/NGK) in South Africa."
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