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Tight copy, Clean, slightly foxed, Dust Wrapper good, price clipped, Prev owners name inscribed on first page. First Edition.
Biography/ African History, Boer War, Zululand,
The Afrikaners (Books) by John Fisher
For nearly three hundred years the Afrikaners, white South Africans whose monther tongue is Afrikaans, have battled to survive. In the eighteenth century they rebelled against the Dutch born Governers who exploited them for profit of the Dutch East India Company. In the nineteenth century, after they had withdrawn into the wilderness during the Great Trek, they clashed with the Bantu Tribes who raided their farms and stole their cattle. After the turn of the twentieth century they were “Freedom Fighters” in the Boer Waar against John Bull’s colonialist imperialism, which made them the darlings of the British Liberals and Socialists. And today. as the driving force behind South African politicss. The Afrikaaners are still struggling to preserve South Africa, their only home.
The author Johannes Meintjes has done full justice to his subject and has shown Louis Botha in all his strength and his weakness too, Louis’s tremendous charms shines through pages.
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