The White Tribe of Africa: South Africa in PerspectiveTo their many detractors, Afrikaners are impractical, wild-eyed, racist fanatics. To their less numerous supporters, they are fervent anti-Communist crusaders, safeguarding stability and progress at the tip of the 'dark continent'. These strongly held, politically charged, and incompatible views make it virtually impossible for outsiders to distance themselves sufficiently, both intellectually and psychologically, from the situation in South Africa to achieve any real understanding of the Afrikaner's world-view. In this basically non-judgmental book, David Harrison offers the general public badly needed insights into how and why Afrikaners see the world as they do. This work goes a long way towards substituting understanding for invective. |
Contents
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 4 | 48 |
Chapter 6 | 65 |
Chapter 13 | 66 |
Nothing but a cultural society | 84 |
Chapter 8 | 103 |
Chapter 10 | 123 |
Chapter 11 | 140 |
Chapter 14 | 182 |
Chapter 16 | 198 |
Chapter 17 | 211 |
Chapter 18 | 227 |
Chapter 19 | 247 |
Chapter 20 | 261 |
Chapter 21 | 279 |
Picture Credits | 294 |
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Afrikaner Broederbond Afrikaner nation Afrikanerdom Albert Hertzog Apartheid areas Assembly Bantu became Biko Blood River Boers British Broeders Cabinet called camp Cape Town Chairman Coloured commando Council D. F. Malan Dingane Dominee Dutch Reformed Church Education election English speakers English-speaking Ernie Malherbe Eschel Rhoodie farms fighting former Henning Klopper homelands hundred Johannesburg John Vorster kaffirs Koornhof Kowie Kowie Marais labour land language later leader living Malan Malherbe's miners months Mulder Natal National Party Nationalists native Naudé never organisation Ossewabrandwag ox-wagon P. W. Botha Parliament Piet Meyer police political poor whites Pretoria Prime Minister race Rensburg Republic Rhoodie Rhoodie's SABC Sachs Sarel Cilliers secret Secretary separate Smuts South Africa Soweto Stormjaers strike teachers thousand tion Transvaal United Party University Verwoerd Volk Voortrekker vote wagons workers Zulus