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African and Afrikaner History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Shula Marks
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The Journal of African History , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 1970 , pp. 435 - 447
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2 The major exceptions to this are Professor Muller's own more judicious, if somewhat vague, statements on the Mfecane, and the few remarks made in chapter 16 on the African reaction to the unification of South Africa.

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