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Hermann Giliomee
The Last Afrikaner Leaders
A Supreme Test of Power

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Respected historian Hermann Giliomee takes a fresh and incisive look at five influential Afrikaner leaders – from H F Verwoerd, John Vorster, PW Botha, F Van Zyl Slabbert to FW de Klerk – and how and why their plans went tragically and horrifically wrong.Giliomee offers a fresh and stimulating political history which attempts to understand why these men did what they did. Interviews with aging former leaders have brought much new information to light on the inner workings of the apartheid era and the heyday and waning of white rule.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 448 ● ISBN 9780624058373 ● File size 1.3 MB ● Publisher Tafelberg ● Published 2012 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4534209 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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