cover image White Tribe Dreaming: 2apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed 8 Generations Afrikaner Family

White Tribe Dreaming: 2apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed 8 Generations Afrikaner Family

Marq de Villers. Penguin Books, $10.95 (464pp) ISBN 978-0-14-010270-3

A liberal Afrikaner here traces the history of his family, comparing it to the history of South Africa itself. ``Regarding schism as fundamental to their tribal nature, he portrays and assesses Paul Kruger, Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, James Hertzog, Jan Hofmeyr and their successors,'' remarked PW. Photos. (Mar.)