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• Forging an imperfect new order for South Africa
• Relevant chronology
• The Prince, the Princess and the Constitutional Lawyer
• From Isandlwana to Inkatha
• From the National Peace Accord to the First democratic elections
• Reflections and truths
• The Minister and his Advisor
• Achievements and failures
• Motion of condolence.

This book is about those aspects of politics and history that ought to matter more than others - those relating to how a just and fair society can be organized to minimize the inevitable evil of government, while maximizing freedom. The purpose of politics must be to create a society in which ''man will be what he was born to be - free and independent'', in the words of John F Kennedy. Too often in the past century, huge governments have been allowed to develop to bring social justice and fairness into society, at the expense of freedom. The analyses in this book show that present societies, like all those that precede them are based on oppression, though to a lesser degree. It is only the justifications that have changed. Now, they rely on the pretext of promoting social justice rather than maintaining safety and security, although none of these has got anywhere close to achieving social justice.

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• 1. Liberalizm
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• 2. Marksizm i levyĭ ėkstremizm
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• 3. Demokraticheskiĭ i chernyĭ nat͡sionalizm
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• 4. Afrikanerskiĭ nat͡sionalizm.

Baruch Hirson - historian and political scientist - was a towering figure of the intellectual Left in South Africa for much of the 20th century. Yael Hirson has collected and edited his writings to produce a comprehensive picture which includes the role of trade unions, the Communist Party, Trotyskist groups, aspects of workers's resistance to oppression by the state and big business - so often closely linked - and the vital questions of race, colour and class in the struggle against the apartheid state. This book provides a unique insight into the formative influences which helped to guide the South African resistance movement and will prove an essential reference point to those interested in the early political career of Nelson Mandela.
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South Africa is an economic engine for the Arican continent. Former President Dr. Nelson Mandela gave a stable and towering leadership to the country after the end of an era of apartheid that lasted 342 years. The first election held in 1994 gave the African National congress a thumping victory in 7 out of 9 provinces. This book deals with all the questions related to all the political growth and progress.
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The autobiography of Mary Benson, a white South African writer known for her work against apartheid, whose life illustrates a public and personal drama. She describes her early years spent in Hollywood and her life as a dedicated worker againest apartheid.
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• Preface Thula Simpson
• 1. Dialectical Dances: Exploring John Dube's Public Life Heather A. Hughes
• 2. 'A Member of the Race': Dr Modiri Molema's Intellectual Engagement with the Popular History of South Africa, 1912-1921 Jane Starfield
• 3. Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography Meghan Healy-Clancy
• 4. The African National Congress in the Western Transvaal/Northern Cape Platteland, c.1910-1964: Patterns of Diffusion and Support for Congress in a Rural Setting Andrew Hayden Manson and Bernard Mbenga
• 5. The Lasting Legacy: The Soviet Theory of the National-Democratic Revolution and South Africa Irina Filatova
• 6. The Genesis of the ANC's Armed Struggle in South Africa 1948-1961 Stephen Ellis
• 7. The African National Congress (ANC) Underground: From the M-Plan to Rivonia Raymond Suttner
• 8. 'The Road to Freedom is via the Cross': 'Just Means' in Chief Albert Luthuli's Life Raymond Suttner
• 9. Emasculating Agency: An Unambiguous Assessment of Albert Luthuli's Stance on Violence Scott Everett Couper
• 10. Secret Party: South African Communists between 1950 and 1960 Tom Lodge
• 11. The ANC, MK, and 'The Turn to Violence' (1960-1962) Paul S. Landau
• 12. Armed and Trained: Nelson Mandela's 1962 Military Mission as Commander in Chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe and Provenance for his Buried Makatov Pistol Garth Benneyworth
• 13. Transformations in the ANC External Mission and Umkhonto we Sizwe, c. 1960-1969 Arianna Lissoni
• 14. Healthcare in Exile: ANC Health Policy and Health Care Provision in MK Camps, 1964 to 1989 Melissa Armstrong
• 15. Main Machinery: The ANC's Armed Underground in Johannesburg During the 1976 Soweto Uprising Thula Simpson
• 16. 'Umkhonto we Sizwe, We are Waiting for You': The ANC and the Township Uprising, September 1984 - September 1985 Thula Simpson
• 17. Sex in a Time of Exile: An Examination of Sexual Health, AIDS, Gender, and the ANC, 1980-1990 Carla Tsampiras.
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The history of the ANC, which is the oldest liberation movement on the African continent, is one that has generated a great deal of interest amongst historians in recent years. Gone are the days when the history of African nationalism could be relegated to the margins of the study of the South African past. Instead, with the ANC having ascended to the helm of political power, a position it has maintained for over twenty years, there can be no question that its history occupies an important and permanent place in the history of the nation. This volume gathers together some of the most important contributions to the literature on the ANC's role in South Africa's struggle for liberation. Besides important themes such as gender, ethnicity, and healthcare, contributions from leading historians also address why the ANC decided to engage in armed struggle; what role the South African Communist Party played in making this decision; how the ANC External Mission contributed to the upsurge of mass protest in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s; and the ANC's contribution, relative to the other components of the liberation struggle, in ensuring the eventual demise of the old racial order. The chapters in this book were originally published in the South African Historical Journal, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and African Studies.
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As Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the ensuing years saw the collapse of South Africa's apartheid regime, John Carlin ('one of the great post-apartheid chroniclers' Financial Times) was the South Africa correspondent of London's Independent newspaper. In his acclaimed Playing the Enemy (filmed by Clint Eastwood as Invictus) he told the story of Mandela's role in the Rugby World Cup of 1990, when Mandela's political genius transformed a sporting event into a moment that defined, unforgettably, a new nation. In his new book, Carlin now offers an illuminating and inspiring personal account of the iconic figure who has come both to define post-apartheid South Africa and to represent the possibility of a moral politics to the world at large. Knowing Mandela focuses on the years from 1990 to 1995, when Mandela faced his most daunting obstacles and achieved his greatest triumphs; it was the time when the full flower of his genius as a political leader was most vividly on display. Carlin spent those years reporting on Mandela's feats, trials and tribulations and was one of the few foreign journalists in South Africa to cover both his release from prison and his accession to the presidency four years later. Drawing on conversations with Mandela and interviews with people close to him, Carlin has crafted a remarkable account of a man who is as flawed as he is gifted, neither superman nor saint. Knowing Mandela offers a profound understanding of the man and what has made him the towering moral and political figure of our age.
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Beginning with Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990, the author first poses various questions about the ANC arising out of this event. He then goes back to its formation in 1912 and provides an interpretive narrative history of the movement up until its electoral victory in 1994: including its early passive resistance to white power, the issue of its central policy document - the Freedom Charter - in 1965; its campaign of industiral and economic sabotage after it was declared an unlawful organization in 1960; its unbanning in February 1990; and its suspension of armed struggle later that year. It questions the assumption that the victory of the ANC has been inevitable, or, indeed, was wholly matched with the wider struggle against apartheid.
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This volume explores some of the key features of popular politics and resistance before and after 1994. It looks at continuities and changes in the forms of struggle and ideologies involved, as well as the significance of post-apartheid grassroots politics. Is this a new form of politics or does it stand as a direct descendent of the insurrectionary impulses of the late apartheid era? Posing questions about continuity and change before and after 1994 raises key issues concerning the nature of power and poverty in the country. Contributors suggest that expressions of popular politics are deeply set within South African political culture and still have the capacity to influence political outcomes. The introduction by William Beinart links the papers together, places them in context of recent literature on popular politics and 'history from below' and summarises their main findings, supporting the argument that popular politics outside of the party system remain significant in South Africa and help influence national politics. The roots of this collection lie in post-graduate student research conducted at the University of Oxford in the early twenty-first century.
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Within the movement towards a post-apartheid society in South Africa, questions concerning the nature of apartheid and the identities it fostered are inevitably raised. This book addresses these issues by revealing both their historical specificity and the implications for the full development of a democratic post-apartheid order. The analysis covers the institution of apartheid as a new form of social division, the transformationist project which characterized it during the 1970s and 1980s, and the disarticulation of that project from the mid-1980s to the present. Central to this analysis is the contention that apartheid, as a failed hegemonic project, can only be understood in its full complexity if attention is given to the specificity of the mode of social division it instituted. The book thus seeks to trace the construction and contestation of the central axes around which its political frontiers were organized. Drawing on a combination of post-Marxist and post-structuralist theorizations of social division and identity formation, the book develops an account of apartheid discourse which avoids the twin pitfalls of essentialism and objectivism.
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With the demise of apartheid in South Africa and the movement towards a post-apartheid society in South Africa, questions concerning the nature of apartheid and the identities it fostered are inevitably raised. Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse addresses these issues by revealing both their historical specificity and their implications for the full development of a democratic post-apartheid order. The analysis covers the institution of apartheid as a new form of social division, the transformationist project which characterized it during the 1970s and 1980s, and the disarticulation of that project from the mid 1980s to the present. Central to this analysis is the contention that apartheid, as a failed hegemonic project, can only be understood in its full complexity if attention is given to the specificity of the mode of social division it instituted. The book thus seeks to trace the construction and contestation of the central axes around which its political frontiers were organized. Drawing on a combination of post-Marxist and post-structuralist theorizations of social division and identity formation, Norval develops an account of apartheid discourse which avoids the twin pitfalls of essentialism and objectivism. She offers an analysis of contending visions - including the discources of the far-right, Inkatha, the new National Party and the ANC - for the future of South Africa, a nd investigates the prospects for the elaboration of non-racialism as a new political imaginary.
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