Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The book was referenced for its insightful summary of the historical context of apartheid in South Africa, specifically highlighting the Great Trek and its impact on Afrikaner nationalism and the lasting effects of the Anglo-Boer War concentration camps.
Around 1838, clinging to a dream of racial exclusivity, but leaving behind their homes in the fields they had cultivated, the Afrikaners set out to escape the British by migrating northwards across th...
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The book was referenced for its insightful summary of the historical context of apartheid in South Africa, specifically highlighting the Great Trek and its impact on Afrikaner nationalism and the lasting effects of the Anglo-Boer War concentration camps.
Around 1838, clinging to a dream of racial exclusivity, but leaving behind their homes in the fields they had cultivated, the Afrikaners set out to escape the British by migrating northwards across the Drakensberg Mountains into Natal and over the Orange River into the Transvaal.
The Great Trek, some bloody 19th century battles with Zulu warriors and their defeat in the war with the British 70 years later helped create a fierce nationalism among the Afrikaners.
The concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War, in which men, women and children perished at the hands of the British, left Afrikaners a profoundly defeated tribe with a defensive psyche that was to have disastrous repercussions in later years.