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| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | ix |
| LIST OF MAPS | xiii |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xvii |
| INTRODUCTION | xix |
| 1 The Fairest Cape in the Whole Circumference of the Earth | |
| The dogs bark just as they do in Portugal | 1 |
| The other Honorable Company | 12 |
| Coree's people | 15 |
| 2 An Inn on the Road to the Indies | 21 |
| A dry and barren waste | 21 |
| Dull, stupid, lazy, stinking people | 28 |
| The anticipated profits disappear in smoke | 33 |
| 3 Victualling Station to Colony | 40 |
| The first Afrikaners | 50 |
| Dangers, expense, and troubles | 55 |
| Khoikhoi to Hottentot | 61 |
| Towards the end of the Honorable Company | 65 |
| 4 The Last Days of the Honorable Company | 68 |
| Among the finest specimens of the humanrace | 68 |
| The Hundred Years War begins | 79 |
| 5 Kaapstad to Cape Town | 88 |
| The Redcoats' first arrival | 88 |
| Efficient protection and occasional acts of kindness | 92 |
| An idealistic interlude | 96 |
| Revolutionaries in black coats | 105 |
| 6 Alarms and Excursions | 116 |
| Baneful radical influences | 116 |
| Washing the spears | 136 |
| 7 The Myth of the Great Trek | 146 |
| Nerves and bowels in agitation | 146 |
| A more formidable enemy | 158 |
| The camp at Thaba Nchu | 164 |
| The Republic of Natalia | 169 |
| As a body they are ignorant and wicked | 175 |
| 8 Ruthless Worthless Savages | 184 |
| If the savages retaliate no one can blame them | 190 |
| We want no more church-going niggers | 195 |
| Representative government | 198 |
| Transorangia: the Empire draws back | 203 |
| Natal: the peace and security which a good government | |
| affords | 209 |
| 9 First Steps to Self-Government | 216 |
| The emergent republics | 221 |
| 10 Uncertain Imperialists | 234 |
| The rock on which South Africa will be built | 234 |
| Griqualand West | 240 |
| Responsible government | 243 |
| Kaffir justice: guilty until proved innocent | 247 |
| Twitters at the helm | 250 |
| Zululand delenda est | 262 |
| Majuba | 267 |
| 11 Picking up the Pieces | 274 |
| Westminster | 275 |
| A mistake as well as a crime | 277 |
| This Bechuana business | 280 |
| The Cape Parliament | 286 |
| The wretched little colony | 296 |
| The Orange Free State | 298 |
| 12 War | 300 |
| The City of Gold | 300 |
| We have got the Maxim gun, and they have not | 307 |
| A fiasco would be most disastrous | 315 |
| All for a people whom we despise | 321 |
| 13 Peace | 338 |
| A shameful peace | 338 |
| You have only to sacrifice the `nigger' | 348 |
| The return of the Liberals | 357 |
| 14 The Union of South Africa | 364 |
| Flabby friends | 364 |
| Chiefs of royal blood and gentlemen of our race | 374 |
| `You cannot govern South Africa by trampling on the Dutch' | 379 |
| 15 Pact and Fusion | 390 |
| Post-war traumas | 390 |
| Afrikaner resurgence | 399 |
| The purified politicians | 405 |
| 16 The Shadows of Apartheid | 414 |
| Homespun fascists | 414 |
| Afrikaner apotheosis | 427 |
| The protectorates | 435 |
| 17 The Era of Show Trials | 444 |
| Only temporary residents | 444 |
| Wind of change | 453 |
| A nation mourns | 461 |
| 18 Disintegration | 474 |
| We hate the language and we hate the owners of it | 474 |
| The Great Crocodile | 479 |
| The beginning of the end | 493 |
| 19 Such a Tumultuous Land | 500 |
| NOTES | 515 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 549 |
| INDEX | 575 |
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Bianka Matchett
reviewed South Africa: A Narrative History on August 17, 2014
South Africa
This was a good history. It gave me a nice overview of South Africa's past. The narrative was clean and kept me moving forward at a nice clip. I bought the first edition (instead of the fourth), both because I was a cheapskate and also because I figured that I'd get another book that told the story of the past thirty years (so far I'm still looking!). The story of how apartheid was constructed just floored me with its blatant inhumanity. While it seemed clear that some churches' missionary activities sought to stem the tide of racism, it was unconscionable that the Dutch Reformed Church fed this racism with its own hideous rationalizations or casuistry (there must be a good book out there that does justice to this injustice). Like a character in The Heart of Redness, this sort of thing tends to put one off of religions in general, when they are used to oppress a people. And it was revealing that the British, in many ways, were just as inhumane as the Africaaners, in constructing apartheid and enslaving a whole group of peoples, although I suspect that the Africaaners get the most part of the blame (and perhaps deserve it!). Although this South Africa story may not have the horror of Auschwitz or even King Leopold's Congo, it is nevertheless an insidious portrait of evil, and helps explain many of the woes that currently assail post-apartheid South Africa.
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