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Life for white farmers like Milla in the South Africa of the 1950s was full of promise - newly married, her future held the thrilling challenges of creating her own farm and perhaps one day raising children.
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Like Zimbabwe, anno 2008...?
I hope that van Niekerk does not stun by the sheer length of her books. I found her white trash fridge book heavy going. But she does a service to Afrikaners in that it is almost acceptable again to speak of Afrikaans literature in the same breath as that of civilised nations, now that apartheid is dead. Talk about collective punishment. The Afrikaners (aka the Boers, whom Baden-Powell scouted against, as Ian Hislop tells us) have been ostracised for half a century, so that their authors have been ignored unless they were writing anti-apartheid agit-prop.