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From: "Steve Hayes" <khanyab@lantic.net>

Though the following is "advertising", I think it is sufficiently interesting
to be worth passing on.

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Date forwarded:         Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:36:47 -0600
Date sent:              Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:36:28 +0200
From:                   Delia Robertson <delia.robertson@gmail.com>
Subject:                [ZA] Groep Sonder Grense now in English translation as
'Cape   Melting Pot'

Delia Robertson is pleased to announce the release of  aeCape Melting Pot, The
Role and Status of the Mixed Population at the Cape 1652-1795AE, as translated
from  aeGroep Sonder Grense, Die Rol en Status van die Gemengde Bevolking aan
die Kaap, 1652-1795AE, Hans (H.F.) HeeseAEs  work on racial integration at the
early Cape.  A seminal work when published in 1985, aeGroep Sonder GrenseAE is
now available in English translation for the first time.

Dr. Heese exposed, more comprehensively and more scientifically than anyone
before him, the racially mixed origins of South AfricaAEs so-called white
population.  Many owhiteoe families, along with the so-called coloured
population, descend from interracial unions between the European occupying
population, imported African and Asian slaves, the indigenous populations, and
their vari-hued offspring.

When it was published in 1985 aeGroep Sonder GrenseAE resulted in a furious
polemic within South Africa which led to a series of debates in parliament.
They, in turn, contributed to the scrapping of the Prohibition of Mixed
Marriages Act of 1949 and sections of the Immorality Act of 1957, the race
based legislation that outlawed contacts and relationships between people of
different racial groups u as they were defined in law.

But, as well-known South African genealogist Gerda Pieterse writes, oThe
emotional content of the book has by now largely been absorbed and accepted in
most Afrikaner circles, but I am indeed curious to see what impact this new
translation will have.oe

Author Hans Heese possesses a rare, if not unique, skill of writing exceedingly
economically in his mother tongue.  Consequently this was an extremely exacting
task, requiring the translator to try and emulate the concise clarity of the
original. Gerda Pieterse writes: oThe language used in translation is not so
academic as to lose the casual reader, but also not so plain that the more
astute reader wouldn't appreciate the depth of the work. Throughout this
translation the use of language is fluid and never laboured,oe and, oIt reads
as if it was conceived in English.oe

The translation is faithful to the original text but, in the 20 years since
aeGroep Sonder GrenseAE was first published, some of Dr. HeeseAEs findings have
been updated by new research.  In those cases where the translator is aware of
later research that updates, supplements or refutes the original, the reader is
directed to the subsequent work in footnotes. Gerda Pieterse again:  oThe
footnotes are clear and well organised, and I especially appreciated the
insertion of newer information by the translator where this was available.oe

Chapters include: the history of interracial unions; the effect of race on
economic status; the status of the free as opposed to the enslaved, and a
chapter summing up and giving a brief overview of the subsequent development of
the several groups of Coloured People in the Cape, the Baster-Hottentots, the
Basters, the Cape Malays and the Cape Coloured People.

Just as in the original, Cape Melting Pot includes three tables of marriages
and other unions; one table of those between Europeans and Coloureds; and, two
of those between Coloureds - by surname and by given name.
 It includes the original as well as a supplemented bibliography.  Unlike the
original Cape Melting Pot, is comprehensively indexed (31 pages of double
columns).

The translation was undertaken with the blessing of author Hans (H.F.) Heese,
M.A., Ph.D., who commented, oDelia Robertson managed to reflect the original
content and the academic intent of the Afrikaans publication. At the same time
she magnificently succeeded in translating the text for an English-speaking,
universal readership. I am proud to be associated with aeCape
Melting PotAE.oe

Title:  Cape Melting Pot, the Role and Status of the Mixed Population at the
Cape 1652-1795 Format:  Fully searchable Portable Document Format file on CD;
Where to Buy:  The online store of the internet branch of the Genealogical
Society of South Africa at:
<http://www.eggsa.org/sales/eshop_e.htm>http://www.eggsa.org/sales/eshop_e.htm

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Steve Hayes
E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk
   Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm
Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727

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