Thoughts on South Africa
Olive Schreiner
Read by Rachel May Ferriman
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding Boer-English relations. The book was published posthumously in 1923. Prospective listeners should be aware that it reflects the place, culture and language of the time in which it was written. (13 hr 21 min)
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Calling Afrikaans "The Taal" is an unfortunate insult. Two ofme?
The One Nerd
The books claims about the Huguenots are false, the Huguenots didn't view France negatively but instead wished to return to France and they saw their persecution as God's punishment on them rather than the fault of the French people, the reason for Afrikaner Nationalism simply was long isolation from Europe and the constant abuse and neglect of the English, also easily over four-fiths of all the Afrikaner ancestors where Dutch/German, only around 10% of the Afrikaner ancestry is French, so that the French Huguenots didn't create the Afrikaner nation alone and many farms where given French names despite what the book says. Afrikaans is a very rich and expressive language and has a large vocabulary today with nearly all the words English has, the Huguenots didn't invent Afrikaans. This book was written before Afrikaans became a literary language like it is today and the Afrikaners had to fight against English and Dutch for the preservation of Afrikaans. This book is also Racist and semi Eugenicist.
Steven Menziwa
well written and well read. it's educative