If you are interested in South Africa, this one is a "must read":

Title: The Covenant
Author: James A. Mitchener
ISBN: 0-449-21420-6

You'll find it on amazon.com for example. There you can read a sample, the first 29 pages. See product details.

This book starts 35000 years ago with a group of bushmen hunting, and ends at the end of the Apartheid era. During all this time the reader gets to follow three different "clans", one of Zulus, one dutch/afrikaans, and one english. It's a lot of history, about the first white settlers, the boer war, the trekBoers.
And best of all: it's a great, wonderful portrait of South Africa's spirit, nature and wildlife.

Sorry, the name on the topic "Lake of freedom" is my translation of the swedish title for the book "Frihetens sj�". Then on amazon.com I saw that the english title is The Covenant.

A wonderful book, read it a couple decades back. Probably not politically correct these days. -Fred

No, probably not politically correct. Better to see it as a fantastic history as it is.