How Things Fell Apart
A Short History of South Africa - 1488 to Present Day
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As a human being whose ancestors just so happened to be from Africa, the continent of Africa has always been intriguing to me. Of all the countries in Africa, South Africa has interested me the most. How did a large population of indigenous South Africans allow a small ban of Europeans not only to control them, but to apply racism, apartheid and to deny them to participate in a government that was setup by the Europeans for the Europeans?
How Things Fell Apart, A Short History of South Africa, 1488 to Present Day, is a detailed journey of the indigenous South Africans struggle and combat from their first contact with white Europeans, the development of the African National Congress (ANC), and the election of Dr. Walter B. Rubusana, the first indigenous South African to be elected to South Africa's Parliamentary government in 1910 and an explaination as to why he failed to be reelected.
This book contains letters written by such European politicians as J. X. Merriman, James Rose-Innes, Sir Alfred Milner, Percy A. Molteno, J. C. Smuts, W. P. Schreiner, and others. There are letters and newspaper articles from such indigenous South Africans politicians as Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, John Tengo Jabavu, Dr. Walter Benson Rubusana, and others. Also, included is the famous newspaper article entitled, “The Rats are at the Corn.”
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In How Things Fell Apart – A Short History of South Africa – 1488 to Present Day, John H. Glover reveals the source of Apartheid and the racial struggles of the indigenous South Africans. Africans, their struggles with the European for political justice and freedom, and their denial of equality in the South Africa Parliamentary system and its society. John used letters written by European South African Politicians to show the fights of the indigenous South Africans and what they were up against, such as Percy A. Molteno, James Rose-Innes, J. X. Merriman, and Sir Alfred Milner, British Governor of Cape Colony, who wrote to Rev. James Green on December 12, 1901: “…As for the indigenous South Africans, one thing which appears to me quite evident is that a distinction must be drawn in the case of the natives between personal and political rights. A political equality of white and black is impossible…in any South African Parliament the interests of the blacks should be specially represented…this could be best done by white men, not elected but nominated for that particular purpose…As regards to personal rights, I hold that those of the natives should be just as clearly defined, and just as sacred as those of the white men. I do not, however, think that they need always be, or ought always to be the same….” How Things Fell Apart – A Short History of South Africa also reveals the indigenous South African politicians such as Walter Benson Rubusana and John Tengo Jabavu, and their struggles to combat political injustice and apartheid.
About the Author
John H. Glover was born on Oaks Plantation, Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. After graduation from Saint Helena High School in 1961, John enlisted in the United States Air Force and was honorable discharged in 1969. John began a 35 years career in computer operations building several data centers. In 1989, John decided to complete his undergraduate degree becoming a full time student at the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California. John majored in African History with a minor in United States History. His African History studies were focused on South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, the Island of Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. John has always asked himself the question, how did a small ban of Europeans gain control over South Africa? He found the truth and is now sharing it with you.