Tuesday, November 18, 2014

The launch of the book

Introducing 'Remember!' I was impressed
The launch of the book 'Remember!' is in itself a historic moment s & h green stamps in the development of South Africa. I would say that the book I certainly somewhat by surprise. s & h green stamps The Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902) is to me one of the most interesting discussion points. It's wonderful that there are people who have a passion for the subject. s & h green stamps This is how it should be because people are different and each has his or her own gifts and passions. But to be honest, even though I do not own the book under eyes, it's me, the whole thing hit us as a nation and we as a people place. But it's a good pressure.
It often happens that the Boer War leads to dull emotion laden debates, no wait, I'd rather not let the word "debate" so much dishonor. Let me rather call conversations. One-way traffic conversations s & h green stamps hateful recriminations. And the thing with 'Remember!' is, it is a kind of publication that people actually just even more reason to give so full of bitterness to be. The truth is and always has been for me that it really is amazing - that, after more than 100 years, actually 110, still sometimes so much bitterness welling up among some people as they are to the Anglo-Boer War thinking and talking about it. But when you hear what it claims apparently 'Remember!' made, then it becomes a little less amazing. Then it is for me a little more understandable - the bitterness that remains in some people.
More than 34 000 women, children s & h green stamps and men "and headed for the British concentration camps" both dead. So reported the "Bloemfontein Courant '*. s & h green stamps The research is apparently done. The names were revealed. And the cry to heaven.
But the thing that I very much appreciated was the focus at the launch of the book. The book is apparently twice introduced. Only in Pretoria. And again in Bloemfontein earlier this week. At the launch in Bloemfontein I was happy to be able to attend Dr. Dirk Hermann, and the two editors s & h green stamps of the book, Professor. AWG Raath and Elrie Wessels discuss the publication (I assume most of the same speakers also spoke in Pretoria). And their message was one of hope. It was a message that says - take this information and use it as a light and inspiration in your own life path. I can testify that the event in Bloemfontein at the Women's Monument, was not one of bitterness, despite the fact that the revelations in this publication allow for this. The message was that our heritage for us inspiration to be. For we are those women and children's children. Me. Wessels explicitly referred to in her speech, and I took her message Especially inspiring place. But all the speakers' contributions have witnessed a spirit s & h green stamps of reconciliation and the search for understanding.
I think it's great. I think there is certainly rests an obligation s & h green stamps on South Africa s & h green stamps to remember. We must remember these 34 000 people killed in and on the way to the camps. s & h green stamps I assume excluded from this figure is 14 000 (?) Black South Africans who also lost their lives in these camps. How accurate number of 14 000, I'm not really sure, I just did it sometime in the literature on the ABO have read. That 14 000 black people, as far as I can remember, only those who died in the camps and do not include those in which the way to the camps dead. Many people also died in the appalling conditions under which they are transported to the camps was, especially s & h green stamps in open railway trucks without sanitation. In total, therefore, brings the death toll in and en route to the camp at least 48 000 people. Almost 50 000. It should be anyway close to 50 000 people if you are black people that is payable on the way to the camps died. And I wonder if there are any records in this regard. Doubt. s & h green stamps Actually we will probably never know exactly how many people died in hell South Africa at that time was not converted.
Luckily, "our country" - yes, when we have a country; I have my long wondered when I could say this - the Americans backed their onafhankelikheid. Of course at the expense of the British.
Hey, if you bought the book yet lend me for a week -lag! I'm too poor for that. Apparently it costs R520! And this is excluding postage. But I would one day like to work through. The book contains 200 photographs apparently, and these 200 photos, 80% have never been published. No wonder it is so expensive with all those pictures.
BUY ?! Who said that I was going to buy the book? I can have that 520 Rand not afford it! I was just a "poor" student ... I'm going purely on high legs to the university library and claim that their book "because of historical value" purchase, so I can borrow.
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