Stormwinde of droogtes. Die storie van Hendrik Schoeman by Freek Swart

Stormwinde of droogtes. Die storie van Hendrik Schoeman by Freek Swart (Afrikaans edition)

Softcover: ISBN 978-0-620-29132-3
Publisher: Litera, 2002 first edition.

Condition: Very Good +. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some very slight/limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.

Few politicians enjoy in their lifetime the kind of popularity that Hendrik Schoeman, at the time the ever-positive minister of agriculture and later of transport, experienced. Because he was one of us, the people said. In this publication, the story of Hendrik Schoeman is told, so that the reader gets to know anew, or for the first time, the colorful personality, with all his tricks, quips and practical, sober plans. One reads of the child who has learned to resist difficulties, to hope against hope, to carve out a path of his own. One gets to know Hendrik, the schoolboy who ran a rewarding vegetable farm next to the Afrikaans Hoer Seunskool in Pretoria; you see him as the kind of minister who picks up a man on the side of the road in his official car; you meet Schoeman, the community man who buys the cake table empty at the church bazaar, only to drop everything off at the nursing home. Years before the new political dispensation, the politician already said that certain things do not belong on statute books and that accountability will one day be demanded for them. The image that the reader gets in retrospect is based on much more than what was officially reported about Hendrik Schoeman. What one gets here are the personal impressions of a keen journalist who has dealt with him and many other politicians in various ways. based on much more than what was officially reported about Hendrik Schoeman. What one gets here are the personal impressions of a keen journalist who has dealt with him and many other politicians in various ways. based on much more than what was officially reported about Hendrik Schoeman. What one gets here are the personal impressions of a keen journalist who has dealt with him and many other politicians in various ways.