Minderheid in eigen land : hoe progressieve strijd ontaardt in genocide en ANC-apartheid
Martin Bosma (Author)
The book Minderheid in eigen land describes the violent conflict between the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha, the largest anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and the support the ANC received from the Netherlands. This “people’s war” in the 1980s cost around 20,000 lives, often through brutal methods like “necklacing” opponents. While apartheid was already collapsing, the ANC operated torture camps, was funded by the Soviet Union and East Germany, and excluded people based on race. Many Dutch public figures supported the ANC unconditionally, and its propaganda was spread through Radio Freedom. The author argues that once the ANC came to power, South Africa introduced more racial laws than ever before, with rising deaths in police custody, widespread crime and corruption, and declining education and healthcare — drawing comparisons to Zimbabwe. Afrikaners fear genocide and cultural erasure. The book also connects these issues to current debates in the Netherlands, asking whether Dutch people themselves might one day become a powerless “minority in their own land,” similar to the Afrikaners
Print Book, Dutch, 2015
Bibliotheca Africana Formicae, Amsterdam, 2015