Maverick Africans
Subtitle: the shaping of the Afrikaners
By: Hermann Giliomee
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780624089087; 9780624089094; 9780624089100
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Afrikaners; History; Ethnic identity; Apartheid; Politics and government; Race relations
Description: Hermann Giliomee, pre-eminent South African historian, dissects the forces that shaped the Afrikaners into an unusual 'maverick African' nation. In part one of this collection, he analyses long-term forces like the powerful legal position of Afrikaner women, the expanding frontier that gave rise to individualism and later to republicanism, and the struggles about race inside the Dutch Reformed Church. The second part examines controversial aspects of more recent Afrikaner political history, including the alleged civil service purges after 1948, Nationalist corruption, the Absa 'Lifeboat' and the quality of Afrikaner leadership. Finally, there is a chapter on the "broken heart" of the Afrikaner community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: An exceptional history and growth of a maverick community; title: Allowed such a state of freedom : women and gender relations in the Afrikaans community before enfranchisement in 1930; title: Afrikaner frontiers; title: Becoming Afrikaners; title: The weakness of some : the Dutch Reformed Church and white supremacy; title: Part Two:  Alleged and real civil service purges; title: The communal nature of the South African conflict; title: Apartheid grand corruption? The ABSA lifeboat and the demand for repayment; title: An exceptional editor; title: Leaders and the citizenry; title: The broken heart of the Afrikaners.