Harrison: White Tribe Africa (Cloth) (Perspectives on Southern Africa) [Hardcover]

Harrison (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 314 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press (July 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520046900
• ISBN-13: 978-0520046900
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,546,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No Better Source for Understanding The "Devil" of S.A., July 12, 2000

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Benjamin Newport (Beaverton, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harrison: White Tribe Africa (Cloth) (Perspectives on Southern Africa) (Hardcover)

The Afrikaner nation in South Africa is the most often maligned, least studied people on Earth. Most Westerners hear the name and go into thought free reaction mode. "They're bad, I want to know nothing." This is a great disservice to the Afrikaners and the various other nations who live with them. To hear Peter Jenninngs, Tom Brokaw, et al talk it would seem that the Afrikaners sprung fully formed as haters from the bare ground one day and have been a blight ever since. Nothing is further from the truth. If any people had known the oppression and hardship that the Afrikaners endured under the British and then became magnanimous and nice afterward, I would like to see them. This book gives one an understanding of the formative events that make up the Boer character, without excusing the many evils of Apartheid. Without a thorough understanding of these many tragic events, there is no understanding of South Africa.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great read in light of the savage murder of white farmers, May 15, 2003

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Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harrison: White Tribe Africa (Cloth) (Perspectives on Southern Africa) (Hardcover)

Today White farmers are being murdered in the thousands by Black Africans. White Afrikaners are being persecuted and massacred and the Black government does nothing. Not so different then what has happaned in Zimbabwe. This book tells the history of the white tribe of Africa. These people were not colonists but natives having migrated to Africa hundreds and hundreds of years ago(before the Zulu migrated to SOuth Africa). These people were forced into undue suffering under the British and suffered in the first concentration camps. THis book tells the story of Aparthied. And it helps to preserve the heritage of a unique people, living in a unique land. When we are older the whites of SOuth Africa will only be a memory, long since butchered and raped by their Black neighboors, they will suffer the fates of whites who have lived in ANgola and Zimbabwe and Uganda. The truth about the situation is that the current Black government has done little to protect the nations minority populations(Indian and White and Chinese) and they are just as intolerant, if not more so, then the whites who were in power previously.
This book is dated but it is an essential read for anyone who has been fed up with the view of S. Africa that all Whites are bad and all Blacks are noble. The truth lies in the middle and this book tells the other hald of the story.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful tale of the Afrikaner people., September 11, 2003

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Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The White Tribe of Africa: South Africa in Perspective (Paperback)

wonderful little book that tells the long tale of the white man in south africa and his endurance and his legacy as well as his barbarism, but mostly his culture. A very insightful book that gives a whirlwind tour through the history of the Afrikaners and their settlement as a Dutch colony to thier persectution by the English, and their war with the Zulus as they fled the British on the Great Trek. An honest portrayel that shows these people to be neither villian nor heroes but products of their circumstance of being threatened from both sides, by the imperial English and the numerious Black Africans, they became hardened and in western eyes, cruel. The book is outdated but worth the read if you can find it.