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The Afrikaners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 736

The Afrikaners

This work is a biography of the Afrikaner people by historian and journalist Herman Giliomee, one of the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner opponents of apartheid. Weaving together life stories and historical interpretation, he creates a narrative history of the Afrikaners from their beginnings with the colonisation of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company to the dismantling of apartheid and beyond.

Historian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Historian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This memoir weaves the author's own story together with that of his country, South Africa. Although he grew up in the heart of the Afrikaner nationalist movement, he soon began to cut his own path in examining the rise and entrenchment of exclusive Afrikaner power and became one of the National Party's chief critics.

The Last Afrikaner Leaders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 645

The Last Afrikaner Leaders

Finalist for the Alan Paton Award In his latest book, renowned historian Hermann Giliomee challenges the conventional wisdom on the downfall of white rule and the end of apartheid. Instead of impersonal forces, or the resourcefulness of an indomitable resistance movement, he emphasizes the role of Nationalist leaders and of their outspoken critic Frederick van Zyl Slabbert. What motivated each of the last Afrikaner leaders, from Verwoerd to de Klerk? How did each try to reconcile economic growth, white privilege, and security with the demands of an increasingly assertive black leadership and unexpected population figures? In exploring each leader’s background, reasoning, and personal foibl...

New History of South Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

New History of South Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Tafelberg

'SA is one of the few regions of the world where humans have lived continuously for nearly two million years' - the New History of South Africa offers an account of all these people.-The Weekender

The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 646

The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840.

History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book. This is the story of the evolution of a society in which race became the dominant characteristic, the primary determinant of status, wealth, and power. Cultural chauvinism of the first European colonists – primarily the Dutch – merged with economic and demographic developments to create a society in which whites relegated all blacks – free blacks, Africans, imported slaves – to a systematic pattern of subordination and oppression that foreshadowed the apartheid of the twentieth century. From the beginning of th...

The Awkward Embrace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

The Awkward Embrace

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-08-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Democracies derive their resilience and vitality from the fact that the rule of a particular majority is usually only of a temporary nature. By looking at four case-studies, The Awkward Embrace studies democracies of a different kind; rule by a dominant party which is virtually immune from defeat. Such systems have been called Regnant or or Uncommon Democracies. They are characterized by distinctive features: the staging of unfree or corrupt elections; the blurring of the lines between government, the ruling party and the state; the introduction of a national project which is seen to be above politics; and the erosion of civil society. This book addresses major issues such as why one such democracy, namely Taiwan, has been moving in the direction of a more competitive system; how economic crises such as the present one in Mexico can transform the system; how government-business relations in Malaysia are affecting the base of the dominant party; and whether South Africa will become a one-party dominant system.

From Apartheid to Nation-building
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

From Apartheid to Nation-building

This book studies apartheid--its background, ideology, implementation, and function--and reform-apartheid, the South African government's latest solution to the continuing crisis. Part One demonstrates that the apartheid system was not unique; rather, that it was built upon the segregation order which had developed as South Africa industrialized with the discovery of diamonds and gold. Part Two critically examines the current South African situation and addresses possibilities for a resolution to the present conflict. The authors explore the emerging political trends, the effects of the sanctions campaign, the prospects for an internationally backed settlement, and the effects of internal pressure for change. Drawing on available literature, the authors then propose a framework for resolution.

The Rise and Demise of the Afrikaners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

The Rise and Demise of the Afrikaners

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Afrikaners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

The Afrikaners

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Tafelberg

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The Rise and Crisis of Afrikaner Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

The Rise and Crisis of Afrikaner Power

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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