The Last Defenders of the Laager: Ian D. Smith and F. W. de Klerk

by Dickson A. Mungazi and Dickson Mungazi [Deceased]

When the Afrikaners (Boers) migrated northward from the Cape to escape British rule, they enountered the Zulu people. To protect their claims, the Boers formed the laager, a circle of wagons. As years passed, the laager acquired wider political dimensions and became a symbol of Afrikaner determination to survive under hostile conditions. Ian D. Smith, last colonial leader of Zimbabwe from 1964 to 1979, and F. W. de Klerk, the last white president...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275960307
• ISBN13: 9780275960308
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"