The Last Defenders of the Laager Ian D. Smith and F.W. De Klerk
- List Price: $138.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
- Publish date: 05/01/1998
Description:
When the Afrikaners (Boers) migrated northward from the Cape to escape British rule, they encountered the Zulu people. To protect their claims, the Boers formed the laager, a circle of wagons. As years passed, the laager acquired wider political dimensions and became a symbol of Afrikaner determination to survive under hostile conditions. Ian D. Smith, last colonial leader of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, from 1964 to 1979, and F. W. de Klerk, the last white president of South Africa from 1988 to 1994, were the last defenders of the laager on the African continent. Rising nationalism and the devastation of civil war would eventually force these leaders to abandon the colonial systems that they had from their predecessors.
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