Unisa Press
The Road to Democracy in South Africa – Abridged Version Vol 1
| Author: | South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET) |
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| Published: | December 12, 2014 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86888-781-1 |
| Number of pages: | 223 |
| This book is not available in electronic format |
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About the book
Volume 1, the first in the SADET Road to Democracy in South Africa Abridged Edition series, tells the history of the struggle for liberation in South Africa in the 1960s. Volume 1 includes chapters about ‘The turn to the armed struggle’ and ‘The Morogoro Conference’. While the series covers the period 1960–1994, volume 1 is based closely on the corresponding volume of the celebrated academic version of SADET’s Road to Democracy series, a reference work par excellence that has achieved wide acclaim and is now found on library shelves not only in South Africa but elsewhere on the continent and abroad.
Unlike the bulky academic versions, the Abridged Edition series is much shorter; it is quicker and easier to read. The footnotes and the lengthy quotations have been removed. So too have the intricate details that some might find overwhelming. What has been left is the nitty-gritty, the captivating account of how the oppressed masses strove to achieve their freedom in the 1960s. Each volume captures all the drama, courage and horror of compelling historical events, researched by experts in the field.
The names of authors of the Road to Democracy in South Africa Abridged Edition series have been removed from each chapter but theirs is the credit for researching and creating them, despite the summarising, cutting and paraphrasing that has been done to produce the Abridged Edition. The original chapter headings and most of the sub-headings within the chapters have been retained.
This Abridged Edition series should be read by every South African. The hope is that others on the African continent and elsewhere in the world will find much of interest in this and the other volumes in this series. After all, the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa is one of Africa’s greatest historical narratives.
Table of content
Preface vii
List of acronyms ix
Chapter 1
Introduction: The political context 1
Chapter 2
The turn to armed struggle 21
Chapter 3
Peasant struggles of the 1950s in gaMatlala and Zeerust 47
Chapter 4
Rural resistance in Mpondoland and Thembuland: 1960–1963 59
Chapter 5
The National Committee of Liberation/African Resistance
Movement 73
Chapter 6
The PAC’s war against the state: 1960–1963 91
Chapter 7
The PAC and Poqo in Pretoria 1958–1964 107
Chapter 8
Land and Liberty! The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa during the 1960s 117
Chapter 9
State repression in the 1960s 127
Chapter 10
Political imprisonment and resistance in South Africa:
The case of Robben Island 149
Chapter 11
The ANC in exile 157
Chapter 12
The Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns 181
Chapter 13
The ANC and the world 205
Chapter 14
The Morogoro conference: A moment of self-reflection 219
Chapter 15
The post-Rivonia ANC/SACP underground 229
Chapter 16
Aboveground activity in the 1960s 247
Index 271