Comrades Against Apartheid
Title | Comrades Against Apartheid PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Ellis |
Publisher | James Currey |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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Examines the South African Communist Party and how it took over the leadership of the ANC between 1960 and 1990, during the time when both organisations were banned in South Africa and were forced to establish their headquarters in exile. It also concerns Umkhonto we Sizwe, the Spear of the Nation, the guerilla army set up jointly by both organisations under the overall command of Nelson Mandela. North America: Indiana U Press
Comrades in Arms
Title | Comrades in Arms PDF eBook |
Author | Makaula Ayanda Bam |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Angola |
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Comrades in Alliance? The Communist Party in Post-apartheid South Africa
Title | Comrades in Alliance? The Communist Party in Post-apartheid South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Iain William McInnes |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1999 |
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Young Women Against Apartheid
Title | Young Women Against Apartheid PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Bridger |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
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.
A Life for Freedom
Title | A Life for Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Denis Goldberg |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2016-03-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813166853 |
From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning to overthrow the government by violent revolution," Goldberg was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. The only white man convicted during the infamous Rivonia trial, he played a historic role in the struggle for justice in South Africa. In this remarkable autobiography, Goldberg discusses growing up acutely aware of the injustice permeating his homeland. He joined the South African Communist Party and helped found the Congress of Democrats. It was his role as an officer in the armed underground wing of the African National Congress (ANC), however, that led to his life sentence -- the outcome of which was a staggering twenty-two years behind bars. While he was incarcerated, the racist dogma of apartheid imposed complete separation from his black comrades and colleagues, a segregation that denied him both the companionship and the counsel of his fellow accused. Recounted with humor and humility, Goldberg's story not only provides a sweeping overview of life in South Africa both during and after apartheid, but also illuminates the experiences of the activists and oppressors whose fates were bound together.
Askari
Title | Askari PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Dlamini |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
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.
Comrade Minister
Title | Comrade Minister PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Adams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Adams, who is not identified, discusses such topics as forging the nationalist/communist alliance; colonialism, armed struggle, and black workers; the path to power during the 1980s; towards a negotiated revolution, 1990-92; reconstructing the Communist Party; between the negotiated and unnegotiated revolution; and parliament and the national democratic revolution, 1994-95. c. Book News Inc.