The origins of non-racialism : white opposition to apartheid in the 1950s / David Everatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everatt, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History--20th century.

Anti-apartheid movements.

White people--South Africa.

White people.

South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1961.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-264) and index.

ISBN:

9781868146581

1868146588

9781868147991

OCLC:

1016779190