LETTER: Scathing about nationalism
I’ve often wondered if they have a copy of Paul Johnson’s A History of the Modern World in Luthuli House
I didn’t realise my well-thumbed copy of Paul Johnson’s A History of the Modern World is now a collectors’ item. I’ve often wondered if they have a copy in Luthuli House, and if so how much of chapter 15 dealing with pre- and post-colonial Africa has been redacted. It’s entitled “Caliban’s Kingdoms”, which leaves little doubt as to what it contains.
Johnson is scathing about both Afrikaner and African nationalism. He is particularly critical of the so-called frontline states and their cynical condemnation of apartheid SA while steadily increasing their exports of labour to the Witwatersrand. In 1972 the SA Chamber of Mines employed 381,000 blacks, one-third of whom came from north of 22° south and one-third from Mozambique...
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