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Now beautifully protected with a Cellophane Cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"results-note-excessively-long\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe author of this book aims to describe 400 historical South African Leaders over 400 years of the country's history\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Hierdie unieke boek is 'n ensiklopedie van ons volk se prestasies. Die skrywer het 'n keuse gemaak van 400 leiers op elke denkbare gebied van die volksplanting af tot op hede. Die belangrikste historiese figure, politici, nyweraars, landbouleiers, kunstenaars ensomeer, word bespreek.\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"E.A. 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Ex Library book with limited but expected stamps and pastings. DJ has some edge wear and tear but is now protected with a Cellophane cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHofmeyr, had a strange childhood, a prodigious academic career, the Principalship of University at age 24,; and then the brilliant Administratorship of the Transvaal at 29; then his political career, which made his biography of the story of our times. In Parliament he soon found himself opposed to the prevailing currents of opinion, even within his own party. But he established himself as an incisive, humourous and sometimes devastating speaker; and, when a Cabinet minister, as a brilliant administrator. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJan Hendrik Hofmeyr (20 March 1894 – 3 December 1948) was a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding apartheid. In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the cleverest men in the country, and it was widely expected that he would eventually become Prime Minister of South Africa. He came from a well-known Afrikaner family; his uncle, also Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr but known affectionately as \"Onze Jan\" among fellow Afrikaners, was a famous figure in the Afrikaans language movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHofmeyr's insight into racial issues was captured in many statements that Hofmeyr made, particularly concerning the rights of non-white people in South Africa. Honorary degrees were conferred on him by the University of Cape Town (D.Sc), Witwatersrand (LLD) and Oxford (D.C.L.).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe University of the Witwatersrand has turned the one-time administrator's house into a museum and restaurant, called Hofmeyr House. His papers are housed at the University of Natal as part of its Alan Paton collection. Paton's seminal novel Cry, the Beloved Country is dedicated to his friend Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. In 1964, Paton published a Hofmeyr biography. 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Book protected with a Cellophane cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSir Thomas Charles Scanlen \u003cspan class=\"noexcerpt nowraplinks\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George\"\u003eKCMG\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (9 July 1834 – 15 December 1912) was a politician and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Administrator_of_the_Government\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"\"\u003eadministrator\u003c\/a\u003e of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Cape_Colony\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"British Cape Colony\"\u003eCape Colony\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was briefly \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_the_Cape_Colony\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Prime Minister of the Cape Colony\"\u003ePrime Minister of the Cape Colony\u003c\/a\u003e, from 1881 to 1884, during an especially turbulent period in the Cape's history, dominated by conflicts such as the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basuto_Gun_War\" title=\"Basuto Gun War\"\u003eBasuto Gun War\u003c\/a\u003e. 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Struik, 1973\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUsed - Very Good. Book protected with a Cellophane cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book, based on the hitherto unpublished diary and letters of the Hon. Charles Smythe, throws fresh light on life in Natal during the period 1872-1918 when momentous events were taking place in South Africa. In 1872 Charles Smythe, then nineteen, left his Scottish home Methven Castle, to go to Natal as a protégé of Herbert Rhodes, eldest brother of Cecil Rhodes who was already making his name at Kimberley. Charles's first attempts to make his fortune failed (they included gold-digging in the Eastern Transvaal), but he eventually settled down to stock-farming in the Natal Midlands. . In 1905 he reached the peak of his career as Prime Minister and Colonial Secretary of Natal. In 1906 he won a political victory over Britain's Colonial Secretary (his cousin, Lord Elgin) in a clash concerning a vital constitutional issue. Charles was a delegate to the National Convention of 1908, and after Union in 1910 he became Administrator of Natal, a post he held with great success until his death in 1918. . A descendant of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the much loved and respected Charles Smythe had the gift of being able to \"walk with kings, nor lose the common touch\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C. 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With the publication of Eugene Terre'Blanche – my side of the story Dr Amos van der Merwe reveals the man behind the headlines that's been reported around the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccording to Van der Merwe, Terre'Blanche's life changed when he was in prison for three years. \"The whole attitude of the book is much more in line with forgiveness and reconciliation than I think the average person would expect.\" Terre'Blanche believed himself to have been the victim of forces greater than himself and the AWB. Contemplating these – and other – events in prison, he came to the conclusion that, time and time again, he had fallen into the trap laid by the then NP government. He repeatedly explains these theories in some detail and with a fair amount of logic. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTerre'Blanche also maintained that he had been jailed unfairly for assaulting a petrol attendant and intimated that he knew the identity of the actual culprit. Dr Amos van der Merwe wrote the book with Terre'Blanche's full co-operation in an autobiographical style: Terre'Blanche tells his story in his own ‘voice’, in the first person. For the first time he also lifts the lid on his life in prison – he tells of the fear, but also of the good relations with his fellow inmates, all of them black. In a newspaper article Van der Merwe said the AWB leader had found \"common ground\" with black inmates in religion: \"That took them away from culture and from race, politics and everything else … [W]hen he arrived there he was the extremist and the activist who stood against the freedom of the blacks. But once they got to know him, they also got to know somebody else. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo I think tolerance developed on both sides.\" In addition to many of Terre'Blanche's poems, the book also contains descriptions of his childhood years, his service in the police force and his marriage, as well as a detailed perspective on his political convictions – far more moderate than what South Africans have come to expect of the militant resistance leader over the course of three decades. Much space is also devoted to his deepened Christian faith. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book gives an unusual insight into the psyche of this controversial figure. It succeeds in exploring Terre'Blanche's deeper motives and provides a fascinating perspective on one of South Africa's most controversial figures. Readers will be able to decide for themselves who Eugene Terre'Blanche really was and what he really stood for. Did he in the end fall foul of what he was warning about? It remains an open question whether his new-found moderate views in some way actually led to his violent death. In his own words: \"Do I have an opportunity to pave the way where others have failed?\" Eugene Terre'Blanche – my side of the story was ready for print before the AWB leader was killed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffel Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40378990461078,"sku":"Eugene Terre'Blanche - My Storie","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/products\/20210728_165602.jpg?v=1627488225"},{"product_id":"hofmeyr-by-alan-paton-1","title":"Hofmeyr by Alan Paton","description":"\u003cp\u003eHofmeyr by Alan Paton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press, 1964\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsed - Very Good. Ex Library book with limited but expected stamps and pastings. The cover has some limited signs of edge and spine wear, but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book is still in a very good condition and for an ex-library book has clearly been well maintained thus far. The book is protected with a new Cellophane cover. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaton, though he does not scorn historical accuracy or an historian's objectivity, has written what is essentially a novelist's biography. Because be shares with Hofmeyr a slow and sometimes painful growth out of 'white-South-Africanness' into what Smuts called 'racial indifference', he is able to make Hofmeyr's point of view his own. For long sections of the biography, one feels almost that one is inside Hofmeyr's own mind, undergoing his experiences only occasionally does Paton sit back from his subject, and look at his progress from an objective point of view. When he does so, it is not as a godlike Thackeray, but as a man recreating a character, anxious not so much to explain his relation to his age and events, or his influence, as to explain why he was what he was, or why he felt and acted as he did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat was Hofmeyr? First, he was a genius. He matriculated, first in his school, third in the Cape Colony, when he was twelve; a B.A. in Languages at fifteen; awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at fifteen; a B.A. in the Sciences at sixteen; an M.A. in the Classics at seventeen; a biography of his uncle, 'Onze Jan' Hofmeyr, at eighteen; Balliol and a double first in Greats in three years; professor of Classics at the South African School of Mines (later the University of the Witwatersrand) at twenty-two; professor of Greek at the University of Cape Town at twenty-four; Principal of the University College of the Witwatersrand at twenty-four; Administrator of the Transvaal at twenty-nine; and so on until he was Deputy Premier of the Union, second only to Smuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut he was not a creative genius. He had a 'prodigious ability to make order of any material presented to him, to comprehend it, to analyse it, and to put it together again to remember both it and his own conclusions for future use .. . his powers of memory were so great as to constitute a quality of his genius worthy of independent mention ... he was an administrator of superlative ability. He knew every part of his machine . . . and when he was a Minister, was sometimes in charge of five portfolios besides his own.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40689507860630,"sku":"Hofmeyr","price":325.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/products\/20210905_163651.jpg?v=1630935264"},{"product_id":"die-ware-generaal-koos-de-la-rey-afrikaans-edition-by-rey-hennie-de-la","title":"Die Ware Generaal Koos De La Rey (Afrikaans Edition) by Rey, Hennie De La","description":"\u003cp\u003eDie Ware Generaal Koos De La Rey (Afrikaans Edition) by Rey, Hennie De La (Afrikaans text)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover, ISBN 9780620227131\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Protea Boekhuis, 1998\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsed - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight\/limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn hierdie boek word ook op interessante wyse uitgebrei oor die generaal se verbintenis met sy psigiese vriend, Siener van Rensburg. Die boek is saamgestel deur die bekende historikus Lappe Laubsher, wat aan die einde van hierdie sketse die laaste maande van die generaal se lewe uit beskikbare bronne konstrueer. Menings word so onpartydig as moontlik gestel en slegs in spesifieke gevalle word na onwaarskynlikhede of teenstrydighede verwys. 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Hierdie veelbesproke held van die Anglo-Boereoorlog geniet saam met Batman en die Ruiter in Swart ikoonstatus onder verskeie generasies. Net soos meer as 'n eeu gelede dien hy as morele leier, 'n sterk figuur waarna mense kan opsien. Maar wie was hy regtig? In Generaal Koos de la Rey: Die leeu van Wes-Transvaal leer ken die leser hierdie heldhaftige generaal - nie net as krygsman met briljante taktiek en interessante opvattings oor oorlogvoering en die staat nie, maar ook as mens en gesinsman. Sy verhouding met sy vrou, sy rol as vader, sy uiteindelike tragiese dood en ander persoonlike inligting kom in hierdie pragboek aan bod. Boonop bevat Generaal Koos de la Rey: Die leeu van Wes-Transvaal 'n groot aantal skaars foto's wat die leeu van die Wes-Transvaal in die verskeidenheid rolle en kontekste uitbeeld.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bienedell Uitgewers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40809700196502,"sku":"De La Rey Die Leeu van die Wes-Transvaal","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/products\/20210921_182350.jpg?v=1632332550"},{"product_id":"muldergate-the-story-of-the-info-scandal-mervyn-rees-chris-day","title":"Muldergate - The story of the Info scandal - Mervyn Rees \u0026 Chris Day","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuldergate - The story of the Info scandal - Mervyn Rees \u0026amp; Chris Day\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover, ISBN 9780869540893\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Macmillan, 1980 First Edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsed - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear, and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe information scandal was nicknamed Muldergate, after\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/people\/dr-connie-mulder\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDr Connie Mulder\u003c\/a\u003e, the central person throughout the scandal. Dr. Mulder was the Minister of Information in John Vorster's government. Moreover, he was tipped to succeed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/pages\/people\/vorster,bj.htm\"\u003eJohn Vorster\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas South Africa's Prime Minister. However, the Muldergate scandal would ruin his political career. The central figures in the scandal were, General Hendricks van der Bergh, head of the infamous\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/pages\/chronology\/thisday\/1969-05-16.htm\"\u003eBureau of State Security\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(BOSS), Dr Eschel Rhoodie a senior official in the department of information and author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Paper Curtain\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that laid the principal foundation of the Propaganda War, the Minister of Finance Dr Nico Diederichs, and the head of government Prime Minister John Vorster. The information scandal cost all of them their political careers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Muldergate scandal was a result of government attempts to influence international and local public opinion about the Apartheid government. The government was concerned that the local English press was interested in spreading bad news about South Africa and distorting positive news about the country. 'The government was convinced that there is an ongoing “hate South Africa crusade”'. 'The government opted for their own propaganda war. The propaganda war started as early as 1973 following John Vorster accepted Mulder's plan to shift about R64 million from the defence budget to undertake a series of propaganda projects. The plan entailed bribes of international news agencies and the purchase of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enewspaper and the secret establishment of a government-controlled newspaper, The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e. An Afrikaner millionaire\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/pages\/people\/luyt-l.htm\"\u003eLouis Luyt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eapparently owned this newspaper. But funds to establish it were raised by the government using secrets funds protect from public and parliamentary scrutiny. The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas established by government to act as a counter voice of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRand Daily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, an English newspaper influential in the formation of English public opinion. The government believed that this newspaper was part of the “hate South Africa crusade”. More than this, the propaganda war was also an attempt to buy the opinion of influential newspapers such as the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the United States of America and European newspapers. Moreover, the propaganda war involved the laundering of South African money by bypassing foreign exchange regulation and using South Africa's vast gold resources to deposit money in the secretive Swiss Bank accounts. Furthermore, the government used funds from the special defence account, which was protected from public scrutiny by the Defence Special Account Act. However, the plan went ahead despite\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/pages\/people\/botha-pw.htm\"\u003ePieter Willem Botha\u003c\/a\u003e's protest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Muldergate scandal became public after the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRand Daily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ejournalists; Mervyn Rees and Chris Day broke the news. The news came first from an unknown source that trusted that they would protect his identity and pursue the matter earnestly. After the news was published, more sources came forward revealing even deeper official secrets to the media. As a result of these revelations, the parliament set up their Select Committee on Public Accounts to investigate the financial affairs of the Department of Information. 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