The Covenant

The Covenant is a historical novel written by the American author James A. Michener, released in 1980. The novel takes place in South Africa which is home to five different peoples: The Afrikaner, The Bantu, The Coloured, and The Indians. The conflicts between these peoples trace back to ancient times up to the 1970s.

Summary (spoilers!) It's mostly from the point of view of the Afrikaners, which are descendants of the Dutch and French settlers to practice their Calvinist tradition. The Afrikaners stopped in a Cape Town to establish a refueling station and a trade spot in the 17th century to work on ships between Holland and Java. The Afrikaners found that in the Old Testament that God favored their conquering of their new land. Their interpretation of the Bible helped them through the 19th century, the Anglo-Boer war, the institution of the Apartheid in the 20th century, and through the battles against the Zulu when they insisted on having a perfect race just like God of Israel in the Old Testament intended and to keep all the political power to the Whites of the European descents.

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