Spear of the Nation (Umkhonto weSizwe) : South Africa's freedom fighters, 1960s-1980s

Spear of the Nation (Umkhonto weSizwe) : South Africa's freedom fighters, 1960s-1980s /

Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century-but it never got to "march triumphant into Pretoria." MK-as it was known-was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that c...

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Main Author: Cherry, Janet
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012
Series:Ohio short histories of Africa.
Subjects:
African National Congress.
Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) > History.
National liberation movements > South Africa.
South Africa > Politics and government > 1948-1994.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The turn to armed struggle, 1960
  • The Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns, 1967
  • Struggling to get home, 1969
  • Reaping the whirlwind, 1984
  • The end of armed struggle
  • A sober assessment of MK.

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