Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge

Urbanized Afrikaners were uprooted from their traditional family support systems and their language and cultural ties came under severe pressure.

[2] On 24 August 1929 a group of Afrikaners under the umbrella of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns met to reflect upon the protection of their cultural heritage.

The goal was to bring people and organisations with similar inner convictions together, and to launch actions for the enforcement of the Afrikaans language and the positive development of Afrikaner culture.

The FAK was then founded at the Uniale Taal- en Kultuurkongres (Language and Cultural Conference of the Union) which was held at the Bloemfontein city hall on 18–19 December 1929.

Later English-Afrikaans glossaries for rugby, football, cricket, shooting, bridge, athletics, boxing, swimming, water polo, tennis, billiards, hockey, basketball and golf terms were published.

Afrikaans was established in the agricultural area by the pamphlet series "Die boer en sy taal" – The Farmer and his language.

[5] Although the notion of erecting a monument in commemoration of the Voortrekkers had already been mentioned by president Paul Kruger at Blood River in 1888, the idea only really came to fruition in 1930 when a small group of Afrikaners led by the famous painter Pierneef decided to take the matter further in a coordinated manner under the leadership of the FAK.

The first copy of the first FAK-Volksangbundel was handed over to then chairman, dr. NJ van der Merwe on 7 June 1937 on the occasion of the FAKs annual general meeting in Bloemfontein.

The songbook was further introduced to music festivals at Aardklop (Potchefstroom), Woordfees (Stellenbosch), Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (Oudtshoorn) and Vryfees (Bloemfontein).