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Author Lissoni, Arianna

Title One Hundred Years of the ANC : Debating Liberation Histories Today
Published Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012

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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
Summary 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 reflecting on the ANC's historical trajectory and struggle against colonialism and apartheid than in its centennial year, this is a collection of new work by renowned South African and international scholars. Covering a broad chronological and geographical spectrum and using a diverse range of sources, the
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Subject African National Congress -- Congresses
African National Congress -- History -- Congresses
SUBJECT African National Congress fast
African National Congress (Afrique du Sud) -- Actes de congrès. ram
Subject Black people -- South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Congresses
Government, Resistance to -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Black people -- Politics and government
Government, Resistance to
Politics and government
Noirs -- Afrique du Sud -- Actes de congrès.
Résistance politique -- Afrique du Sud -- 20e siècle -- Actes de congrès.
SUBJECT South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Congresses
Subject South Africa
Afrique du Sud -- Politique et gouvernement -- 20e siècle -- Actes de congrès.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Soske, Jon
Nieftagodien, Noor
Badsha, Omar
ISBN 9781868146000
1868146006