Comrades Against Apartheid
Title | Comrades Against Apartheid PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Ellis |
Publisher | London : J. Currey |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Anti-apartheid movements |
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This book is about the South African Communist Party and how it took over the leadership of the African National Congress between 1960 and 1990, during the time when both organisations were banned in South Africa and forced to establish their headquarters in exile. It also concerns Umkhonto we Sizwe, the Spear of the Nation, the guerrilla army set up jointly by both organisations in 1961 under the overall command of Nelson Mandela. The banning of the ANC left them no other means of political expression but to fight. Central to the book is Tsepo Sechaba's inside account of the interaction of the SACP and ANC. He was also witness to much of the espionage, counter-espionage and infiltration which was carried out by the South African government.
Comrades in Arms
Title | Comrades in Arms PDF eBook |
Author | Makaula Ayanda Bam |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Angola |
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Young Women Against Apartheid
Title | Young Women Against Apartheid PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Bridger |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1847012639 |
Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.
Askari
Title | Askari PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Dlamini |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780190277383 |
"In 1986 'Comrade September', a charismatic ANC operative and popular MK commander, was abducted from Swaziland by the apartheid security police and taken across the border. After torture and interrogation, September was 'turned' and before long the police had extracted enough information to hunt down and kill some of his former comrades. September underwent changes that marked him for the rest of his life: from resister to collaborator, insurgent to counter-insurgent, revolutionary to counter-revolutionary and, to his former comrades, hero to traitor. Askari is the story of these changes in an individual's life and of the larger, neglected history of betrayal and collaboration in the struggle against apartheid. It seeks to understand why September made the choices he did - collaborating with his captors, turning against the ANC, and then hunting down his comrades - without excusing those choices. It looks beyond the black-and-white that still dominates South Africa's political canvas, to examine the grey zones in which South Africans - combatants and non- combatants - lived." -- Publisher.
Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid
Title | Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Wieder |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 391 |
Release | 2013-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1583673563 |
Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced repression and exile. Their contributions to the liberation struggle, as individuals and as a couple, are undeniable. Ruth agitated tirelessly for the overthrow of apartheid, first in South Africa and then from abroad, and Joe directed much of the armed struggle carried out by the famous Umkhonto we Sizwe. Only one of them, however, would survive to see the fall of the old regime and the founding of a new, democratic South Africa. This book, the first extended biography of Ruth First and Joe Slovo, is a remarkable account of one couple and the revolutionary moment in which they lived. Alan Wieder’s deeply researched work draws on the usual primary and secondary sources but also an extensive oral history that he has collected over many years. By weaving the documentary record together with personal interviews, Wieder portrays the complexities and contradictions of this extraordinary couple and their efforts to navigate a time of great tension, upheaval, and revolutionary hope.
From Comrades to Citizens
Title | From Comrades to Citizens PDF eBook |
Author | G. Adler |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230596207 |
In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded into insurrection led by youth and residents' organisations that collectively became known as the civics movement. Ironically the movement has been unable to adapt to the role of a voluntary association in the liberal polity it helped create, and has great difficulty defining any alternative role. This volume charts the rise and fall of the movement in the transition to and consolidation of democracy in South Africa.
Teacher and Comrade
Title | Teacher and Comrade PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Wieder |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2014-01-21 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0791478459 |
Teacher and Comrade explores South African resistance in the twentieth century, before and during apartheid, through the life of Richard Dudley, a teacher/politico who spent thirty-nine years in the classroom and his entire life fighting for democracy. Dudley has given his life to teaching and politics, and touched and influenced many people who continue to work for democracy in South Africa and abroad. Whether it was students, comrades, or opposition, life was always teaching and relational for Dudley. He challenged power throughout the apartheid era, and his foundational beliefs in anti-imperialism and nonracialism compel him to continue to talk, teach, and speak to power. Through Dudley's story, Teacher and Comrade provides a rare portrait of both Cape Town and South Africa, as well as the struggle against racism and apartheid.