To get a real sense of the history of any country in the world, one would obviously need to read more than one book as the subject lends itself to interpretive bias. As Publishers Weekly noted in its review “Ultimately, this dramatic read, based on extensive personal research, is absorbing but agenda-driven history.” For instance, to intimate that Afrikaans was ever the official language in SA is downright twaddle. Moreover, no country was ever built without some degree of exploitation, conquest and the spilling of blood. Whites and the zealot Afrikaners built a country readily acknowledged as the most developed on this miserable, murderous, soon to be severely overpopulated and plague-infested continent, comparable to the best in the First-World. It is also telling that the author hails from France, itself a past colonial power implicated in multiple atrocities in its former territories that presently grapples feebly with the complexities of integrating its multi-cultural society. But be that as it may, fortunately we today have a prosperous, crime and corruption free, rainbow nation at peace with itself ably led by a virtuous party in the true mould of its iconic leader and doing justice to his legacy....or is self-destruction possibly fatally encoded into this country’s DNA as is the case with all parasitic systems in nature? As an aside, why would you need a Frenchman to tell you about the history of your own country…unless you are a recent arrival?