The popular image of the Kalahari is a romantic one of desert space
and untouched Bushmen. The popular image of the Afrikaners is of a
unique and vicious racialism. Yet Afrikaners have been living in
the Kalahari for more than a hundred years, their presence often
studiously ignored by writers; and since 1961 independent Botswana
with its policy of scrupulous non-racialism has embraced both
Afrikaner and Bushman in common citizenship. This book attempts to
describe the complex and mundane reality of ethnic relations in the
Kalahari, not only in the present, harried by relentless pressure
to enter the cash economy of modernisation, but in the past. Using
oral history as a source, the authors describe the 'Africanisation'
of these poor white pastoralists of the interior, cut off by the
thirstland from those influences which gave contemporary
Afrikanerdom its particular cast. They describe the pragmatic
relations developed by Afrikaners with other peoples of the
interior, and how these have been perceived and redefined with the
decisive shift in political power from British to Tswana hands.
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