Vorster: The Man by John D'Oliveira
Vorster: The Man by John D'Oliveira
Hardcover, ISBN 9780949997340
Publisher: Stanton, 1977
Used - Very Good. The jacket is sunned and marked and worn. Now protected with a Cellophane cover.
At this crucial point, the future of South Africa probably depends more on one man than at any other time this century. And that man is Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister for the last eleven years. But who is Vorster? Who is the man behind the dour public mask? Where does he come from? What are the forces, the events, the influences which moulded him? How did he rise from being interned as a state security threat to become Prime Minister of perhaps the most controversial country in Africa? John D'Oliveira, one of the few journalists who knows Vorster well, one of the select handful who have won his confidence over the years, sets out to answer these questions in a biography compiled mainly out of original material, mainly out of interviews with the people who have been involved with Vorster from his childhood to his Premier ship. An exercise which has only been possible because of the Prime Minister's own co-operation. A book which for the first time, tells the full story of the young Afrikaner nationalist who was interned without trial during the Second World War because of the leading role he played in the Ossewa Brandwag movement, who at one time eschewed parliamentary democracy, who was vigorously rejected by the National Party as a parliamentary candidate in 1948 but who rose in thirteen brief parliamentary years from backbencher to Prime Minister. A true and unbiased account of the man Balthazar Johannes Vorster.