{"id":957,"date":"2024-11-30T03:30:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/?p=957"},"modified":"2024-11-30T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T11:00:54","slug":"die-bondelswarts-van-namaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/gespreksreekse\/die-bondelswarts-van-namaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Die Bondelswarts van Namaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the epic war novel <em>Rooisand <\/em>, former detective Jeremy Vearey tells the story of Dirk Aruseb, who was taken from the orphanage at the age of 17 to join the Bondelswarts. Dirk couldn\u2019t wait to conquer the Schutztruppe alongside Capt. Jakob Marengo, but at Schansvlakte, deep in Namaland, the first of his life lessons begins: Be humble, be patient, be merciful. Find your eland, tame your fiscal shrike. Vearey\u2019s first novel is set from 1904 to 1922, when thousands of Bondelswarts were finally wiped out by Jan Smuts\u2019s fighter planes. The story stretches from Tsumeb to Upington, from Windhoek\u2019s prison camps to the dry riverbeds of the Fish River. And Dirk learns that the struggle for freedom for the Bondelswarts is about more than just a bloodthirsty feeling for Namaland, the promised land that must be protected at all costs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In die epiese oorlogsroman Rooisand vertel die voormalige baasspeurder Jeremy Vearey die verhaal van Dirk Aruseb wat as 17-jarige uit die weeshuis gehaal is om by die Bondelswarts aan te sluit. Dirk kon nie wag om saam met kapt. Jakob Marengo die Schutztruppe te verower nie, maar by Schansvlakte, diep in Namaland, begin die eerste [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,50],"tags":[],"datum":[10],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gespreksreekse","category-kknk-boekstories","datum-1-april-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"datum","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kknk2025.kknk.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/datum?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}