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The origins of non-racialism : white opposition to apartheid in the 1950s / David Everatt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Everatt, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History--20th century.
- Anti-apartheid movements.
- White people.
- History.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1961.
- South Africa.
- Politics and government.
- White people--South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- How did South Africa embrace "non-racialism"? After centuries of white domination and decades of increasingly savage repression, freedom came to South Africa far later than elsewhere in the continent - and yet was marked by a commitment to non-racialism. Nelson Mandela's Cabinet and government were made up of women and men of all races, and many spoke of the birth of a new 'Rainbow Nation'. How did this come about? How did an African nationalist liberation movement resisting apartheid - a universally denounced violent expression of white supremacy - open its doors to other races, and whites in particular? And what did non-racialism mean? This is the real 'miracle' of South Africa: that at the height of white supremacy and repression, black and white democrats - in their different organisations, coming from vastly different backgrounds and traditions - agreed on one thing: that the future for South Africa would be non-racial.
- Contents:
- Whites and the ANC, 1945-1950
- The emergence of white opposition to apartheid, 1950-1953
- Multiracialism : Communist plot or anti-Communist ploy?
- From CPSA to SACP via CST : Socialist responses to African nationalism, 1952-1954
- The South African Congress of Democrats
- The Liberal Party of South Africa
- Overhauling liberalism
- The Congress of the People
- The Freedom Charter and the politics of non-racialism, 1956-1960.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781868145003
- 186814500X
- OCLC:
- 463545287
- Publisher Number:
- 99942606534
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