Under Smuts’s Rule by Bongani Ngqulunga examines Jan Smuts’s complex legacy and his impact on black South Africans. While a global statesman, Smuts was also an architect of segregation. Analyzing letters and speeches, Ngqulunga tracks Smuts’s "Native policy" from the Anglo-Boer War through his terms as Prime Minister. Featuring perspectives from leaders like Sol Plaatje and Nelson Mandela, the book shows how Smuts’s late realization that segregation had failed came too late to stop the r...
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