Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners

[1] Arnoldus Pannevis, a teacher, is generally considered to be the spiritual father of the society.

He had observed that most of the South Africans from Dutch descent could not speak the "pure" form of their original mother tongue anymore.

In 1874 Pannevis expressed these views in the journal de Zuid-Afrikaan[2] under the title "Is die Afferkaans wesenlijk een taal?

On 14 August 1975 the Afrikaans Language Museum was opened in the former house of Gideon Malherbe in Paarl, the building in which the Society was founded.

The Afrikaans Language Monument was also opened in Paarl in 1975, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society.