AmaBhulu
– The Birth and Death of the Second America was
first published in November 2013 as an e-book,
and is now also available in a 630 page B&W
printed softcover edition. This work is a
comprehensive study of the complete history of
South Africa, but with the unique
differentiation that it tracks a few real
bloodlines through that entire history. AmaBhulu describes
how real individuals of European and North
American descent experienced that epic history
on the ground. The reader is placed among these
real people. The author is the first to point
out that his family is in this respect “dreadfully
typical” and completely representative.
AmaBhulu is therefore not a family history, but
a History of a Nation by way of a few example
bloodlines who happened to have been at the key
formative events in that history.
These bloodlines systematically converge and by
the 1950s they lead to the author and his wife,
proving the author’s natural DNA-based authority
in writing on the subject. AmaBhulu thereby
also differs from the library of books by
British newspapermen talking either about or to
Afrikaners who are then treated as “subjects”.
In AmaBhulu the world may hear an
ordinary Afrikaner—not a reporter beholden to
his editor, politician beholden to his party, or
government-paid political history professor
beholden to his pay cheque—talking about his own
people based on actual experience, backed by
solid evidence. The author is beholden to no one
and no thing; only to his conscience, to his
ethics, and to his respect for evidence.
AmaBhulu provides more than 1280 notes
in evidence and a massive 270 bibliographic
entries in support of any points it makes. The
evidence is often from 17th-19th century texts,
communications, or diaries. In more recent
cases, the evidence is provided from British Hansardrecords
and recently cleared US State Department
documents. The author even provides recent
documented supporting evidence from the enemy he
was opposing.
Join the author in the epic and painful story of
the Afrikaner nation as it evolves at the
southern tip of Africa to build the country that
became to Africa what America was to the world
in the 20th century. In one sense, it is the
story of what would have happened to the United
States if it had not gained independence in the
18th century.
In 1797 the British Royal Navy was concerned
that South Africa would become a “Second
America” and take India from them. AmaBhulu holds
stern warning for the First America if it wishes
to avoid the present sad fate of the Second
America.