Signed by the author, privately published, hardcover, extensively illustrated, contents, glossary, sources, acknowledgements.
'My book is the result of forty years of research in museums and archives in both South Africa and the United Kingdom. I publish the actual archival documents as proof of the extensive child slavery in South Africa" (from the foreword).
The Zululand Observer has published 140 of the author's illustrated articles on the history of Zululand covering the period 178 to 1978. This book contains 88 articles.
'In another development, academic JC van der Walt writes in the just-released Zululand True Stories that the Boers of the Transvaal Republic sometimes stole children from the black groups they attacked and used them as labourers, almost like slaves. These are uncomfortable, difficult new insights into my Afrikaner past that are hard to process because they cast a dark shadow over our whole view of who we are and where we come from. But if they are true, we should accept it, make peace with it and strive to learn more and understand better" (Distorting History, Max du Preez) .
The author was honoured in 2001 by the Zululand History Society for research work of outstanding merit.
