One Hundred Years of the ANC : Debating Liberation Histories Today.

On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organization on the continent, celebrated its 100th anniversary and this historic event generated significant public debate within both the ANC and South African society at large. Critically reflect...

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Main Author: Lissoni, Arianna
Other Authors: Soske, Jon, Nieftagodien, Noor, Badsha, Omar
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; First Keynote Address: Fragmentation and Cohesion in the ANC: The First 70 Years; Second Keynote Address: A Continuing Search for Identity: Carrying the Burden of History; Chapter One: One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Struggle History After Apartheid; Chapter Two: Religion And Resistance In Natal, 1900-1910; Chapter Three: Christianity and African Nationalism in South Africa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Chapter Four: Charlotte Maxeke: A Celebrated and Neglected Figure in History.
  • Chapter Five: Imagining the Patriotic Worker: The Idea of 'Decent Work' in the ANC's Political DiscourseChapter Six: Popular Movements, Contentious Spaces and the ANC, 1943-1956; Chapter Seven: Unravelling the 1947 'Doctors' Pact': Race, Metonymy and the Evasions of Nationalist History; Chapter Eight: The Politics of Language and Chief Albert Luthuli's funeral, 30 July 1967; Chapter Nine: Robben Island University Revisited; Chapter Ten: Shishita: A Crisis in the ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1980-811; Chapter Eleven: Comrade Mzwai.
  • Chapter Twelve: Revisiting Sekhukhuneland: Trajectories of Former UDF Activists in Post-Apartheid South AfricaChapter Thirteen: Regeneration of ANC Political Power, from the 1994 Electoral Victory to the 2012 Centenary; Chapter Fourteen: The ANC: Party Vanguard of the Black Middle Class?; Chapter Fifteen: Globalisation, Recolonisation and the Paradox of Liberation in Southern Africa; Contributors; Index.