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...Triptych. The conflict in South Africa is not simply a matter of black v. white. It is a triptych of Boer, Briton and Bantu Negro...
...Boers regard South Africa as their only home; unlike the British, they have nowhere else to go. Bruised into self-consciousness by British imperialism, which snuffed out their independence in the bloody Boer War (1899-1902), they are the backbone of Malan's Nationalist Party, which seeks to separate South Africa from the British Commonwealth...
...living in kraals and reed huts on the native reserves; few speak the white man's language. Alongside the Bantus live 300,000 Indians, most of them shopkeepers and plantation laborers in sugar-growing Natal, and 1,100,000 Cape Colored, i.e., mulattoes, coffee-colored descendants of early Boer settlers...
Malan is convinced that he has been "elected" by God to lead the Boers to a "New Jerusalem," by which he means a Boer republic...
Papa Malan had intended his elder son to take over the farm. In accordance with Boer tradition, he earmarked for the future master a fine riding horse. Curled up with a book, Danie didn't even go to the stable to see which horse was his. "You'll never be a farmer," sighed Papa Malan...