Perhaps once in a century a book comes along to break the shackles of dishonest reporting that bind the thoughts and actions of generations. This author, whose South African bloodline traces to the beginning of the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, has written such a book.
For three generations we have heard political propaganda masquerading as news, and history telling a politically tainted story about South Africa. Much of it was blatantly false, and even more was misleading. With this fresh new book we hear the missing "other side of the story", the REAL history of Southern Africa from someone who was there, and who knows and understands it.
In this highly readable and exciting history, Harry Booyens makes the dramatic and often outrageous history of South Africa vividly clear to anyone with an open mind. For the skeptical, there are over a thousand footnotes. But this book is not just another compilation of safely Politically Correct quotes and excerpts rehashed from other books. This is the real thing; original, up to date, and generally reflecting what I saw on my trips there. Written for American and European audiences who were politically active in South Africa, it holds severe warnings for the United States and the West as a whole.
AmaBhulu is a must-read for anyone interested in Africa, and compulsory for anyone who would presume to comment on South Africa. It should be required reading for every student of Africa and every International Diplomat, and it should be in every serious Library.
This remarkable new work is without peer!
- David A. Lien,
* Former US College Dean with experience of South Africa in the 1980s
As a reluctant author, I have felt forced to create
AmaBhulu in response to the savagery and abuse besetting South Africa in the 21st century. If the Western media had exhibited professional balance in the matter of that tortured country, there would have been less need for this work. However, almost 60 years of slanted reporting has created a desperate need for the broader South African story, properly substantiated by evidence.
Creating this work consumed seven years and took me to the smallest of villages in Europe and out of the way places in South Africa. As I followed the bread crumbs of information on the trail of history, it turned into a journey of discovery in several domains. Perhaps I even discovered my true self.
To those readers in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, I give you AmaBhulu, the story of your disowned kin deserted to the forces of savagery in Africa; sentenced to death on the altar of the guilty conscience of Europe and North America in the matters of Colonialism and Slavery.
To those in South Africa, it is the story of who you are.
From the Back Cover
The West has finally realized that "bringing Democracy" to the Middle East and Southwest Asia is not necessarily in the best interests of Western Civilization. Radical Islam is hijacking its plans and making a mockery of Democracy itself.
In South Africa, an earlier experiment in Bestowed Democracy is failing under a burden of abuse. Much taken with its own role in undoing apartheid a full generation earlier, the West prefers to look away. It appears to treat the plight of Western people in that country as a form of required penance. In the process, it indulges what is in effect a corrupt One-Party State Kleptocracy run along the Party Congress lines of its original mentor, the defunct Soviet Union.
AmaBhulu is a view of South Africa through eyes different from those employed in fifty years of media reporting, social science, and politics. The author walks the reader from the 1652 landing of the Dutch to the present by following his own family bloodlines as example through the documented history of the country, supported by copious evidence. As settlers, soldiers, slaves, and indigenes, they farm, they fight, they triumph, and they lose. They are mercilessly impaled and massacred by savage African tyrants. They are hanged and fusilladed by an imperial overlord, and herded into concentration camps. Yet, they persevere to create a key Western Christian country; the envy of all Africa and a Cold War bulwark of the West. Eventually it falls to the author to describe the loss of his country through forces beyond his control.
In 1797 the British Royal Navy feared South Africa would become a "Second America" for Britain, while, in the 20th century, the country was to Africa what the United States was to the world. AmaBhulu describes the developing crisis in the Second America that will inevitably entangle the First America. It is a study in the death of Civilization by its own collective hand; a severe warning for the West.
AmaBhulu should give pause to every thinking Westerner.
About the Author
Harry Booyens is an internationally recognized, multiple award winning PhD Defense & Aerospace physicist. Originally from South Africa, with a 360-year bloodline in that country, he lives with his family on the forested slopes outside Vancouver, Canada. He applies his lifetime of research and interpretive skills to History and Genealogy, and writes with factual accuracy and engaging style on these subjects. Compelling evidence is a trademark of his work and has won him a number of awards.
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