In this attitude , Hofmeyr was emulating his famous uncle .
Hofmeyr 's own line was that the two need not have been mutually exclusive , that Afrikaners could have a national identity without separating their country from the British Empire as the republicanists were clamouring to do .
In this attitude , Hofmeyr was emulating Hofmeyr 's famous uncle .
Hofmeyr 's own line was that the two need not have been mutually exclusive , that Afrikaners could have a national identity without separating their country from the British Empire as the republicanists were clamouring to do .