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Boerejood

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Boerejood is biography crossed with the unpacking of political mystery, crossed with a travel book.

A bit of a chameleon - a book of many colours. It takes readers on a 1,000 mile journey round the Cape as Capetonian returns after 25 years abroad to seek an understanding of the SA 'Miracle'.

The writer grows up with a foot in two cultures and finding that this can be both uncomfortable & funny.

It speaks of then and now and how to live in South Africa today.

The book is NOT an apologia for the Afrikaners - but I do speak up for them.

It is about the loss of land, language and culture - it is a sad song from the heart of a half Afrikaans expatriate.

It is a bifocal view of South Africa which compares and contrasts the Jews and the Afrikaners.

It poses the question: 'Will the Afrikaners survive as a tribe, a culture.

Will Afrikaans be a language for cyberspace only.?

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Product Details
Jacana Media
1770090223 / 9781770090224
Paperback
04/11/2004
South Africa
English
250 p.
21 cm
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