The Unresolved National Question in South Africa

Daryl Glaser, Martin Legassick, Lucien Walt, Nicole Ulrich, Sian Byrne, Alec Erwin, Shireen Hassim, Xolela Mangcu, Gerhard Maré, Salim Vally, Enver Motala, T Dunbar Moodie, Siphamandla Zondi, A R Zinn, C A Thomas, H J Peterson, M P Giyose, B G Brown, Luli Callinicos Callinicos, Robert van Niekerk Niekerk, Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo Mohubetswane Mashilo, Jeremy Cronin, John Mawbey, Edward Webster

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

Preface: Edward Webster and Karin Pampallis

Introduction: Revisiting the National Question - Edward Webster and John Mawbey

Part One: Key Foundational Traditions

Chapter 1: Decentring the Question of Race: Critical Reflections on Colonialism of a Special Type - Jeremy Cronin and Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo

Chapter 2: The African National Congress: Social Democratic Thinking and the Good Society, 1940–1962 - Robert van Niekerk

Chapter 3: Oliver Tambo and the National Question - Luli Callinicos

Chapter 4: The Unity Movement and the National Question - Basil Brown, Mallet Pumelele Giyose, Hamilton Petersen, Charles Thomas and Allan Zinn

Chapter 5: The Africanist Turn in South African National Question Discourses - Siphamandla Zondi

Part Two: Continuity and Rupture

Chapter 6: Vicissitudes of the National Question: Afrikaner Style - T. Dunbar Moodie

Chapter 7: Neville Alexander and the National Question - Enver Motala and Salim Vally

Chapter 8: The Marxist Workers’ Tendency of the African National Congress - Martin Legassick

Chapter 9: The National Question confronts the Ethnic Question - Gerhard Maré

Chapter 10: Variations on a Zulu Theme - Ari Sitas

Chapter 11: Black Consciousness as Nationalism of a Special Type - Xolela Mangcu

Chapter 12: Postponing the National Question: Feminism and the Women’s Movement - Shireen Hassim

Chapter 13: Workerists and the National Question - Alec Erwin

Chapter 14: Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African ‘Workerism’, Syndicalism and the Nation - Sian Byrne, Nicole Ulrich and Lucien van der Walt

Chapter 15: National Democratic Revolution meets Constitutional Democracy - Daryl Glaser

Sujets

• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• África
• General officer
• Political philosophy
• History of Africa
• General
• Africa

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• Publié par: WITS University Press
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781776140244
• Langue: English

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CONTENTS
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS PREFACE: Edward Webster and Karin Pampallis INTRODUCTION: Revisiting the National Question Edward Webster and John Mawbey PART ONE: KEY FOUNDATIONAL TRADITIONS CHAPTER 1: Decentring the Question of Race: Critical Reflections on Colonialism of a Special Type Jeremy Cronin and Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo CHAPTER 2: The African National Congress: Social Democratic Thinking and the Good Society, 1940–1962 Robert van Niekerk CHAPTER 3: Oliver Tambo and the National Question Luli Callinicos CHAPTER 4: The Unity Movement and the National Question Basil Brown, Mallet Pumelele Giyose, Hamilton Petersen, Charles Thomas and Allan Zinn CHAPTER 5: The Africanist Turn in South African National Question Discourses Siphamandla Zondi PART TWO: CONTINUITY AND RUPTURE CHAPTER 6: Vicissitudes of the National Question: Afrikaner Style T. Dunbar Moodie CHAPTER 7: Neville Alexander and the National Question Enver Motala and Salim Vally CHAPTER 8: The Marxist Workers’ Tendency of the African National Congress Martin Legassick CHAPTER 9: The National Question confronts the Ethnic Question Gerhard Maré CHAPTER 10: Variations on a Zulu Theme Ari Sitas CHAPTER 11: Black Consciousness as Nationalism of a Special Type Xolela Mangcu CHAPTER 12: Postponing the National Question: Feminism and the Women’s Movement Shireen Hassim CHAPTER 13: Workerists and the National Question Alec Erwin CHAPTER 14: Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African ‘Workerism’, Syndicalism and the Nation Sian Byrne, Nicole Ulrich and Lucien van der Walt CHAPTER 15: National Democratic Revolution meets Constitutional Democracy Daryl Glaser BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES INDEX
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AAC All-African Convention AB Afrikaner Broederbond AMCU Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union ANC African National Congress Anti-CAD Anti-Coloured Affairs Department Movement APO African People’s Organisation AZAPO Azanian People’s Organisation ANCYL ANC Youth League BAWU Black and Allied Workers’ Union BC Black consciousness BCM Black Consciousness Movement BEE Black economic empowerment CAD Coloured Affairs Department CI Communist International CNETU Council of Non-European Trade Unions COD Congress of Democrats CODESRIA Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Comintern Communist International COSATU Congress of South African Trade Unions CPC Coloured People’s Congress CPSA Communist Party of South Africa CST Colonialism of a special type DA Democratic Alliance EFF Economic Freedom Fighters FCWU Food and Canning Workers’ Union FDI Foreign direct investment FEDSAW Federation of South African Women FOSATU Federation of South African Trade Unions GEAR Growth, Employment and Redistribution strategy GWU General Workers Union ICU Industrial and Commercial Workers Union IFP Inkatha Freedom Party IIE Institute for Industrial Education IWW Industrial Workers of the World KLA KwaZulu Legislative Assembly KZN KwaZulu-Natal LGBTQIA Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual [community] MAWU Metal and Allied Workers’ Union MK Umkhonto we Sizwe [Spear of the Nation] MP Member of Parliament MWT Marxist Workers’ Tendency NCW National Coalition of Women NDR National Democratic Revolution NEC National Executive Committee NEDLAC National Economic Development and Labour Council NEF New Era Fellowship NEUM Non-European Unity Movement NGO Non-governmental organisation NHI National Health Insurance NLL National Liberation League NHS National Health Service NIC Natal Indian Congress NP National Party NPC National Planning Commission NUM National Union of Mineworkers NUMARWOSA National Union of Motor Assembly and Rubber Workers of South Africa NUMSA National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa NUSAS National Union of South African Students NUTW National Union of Textile Workers PAC Pan Africanist Congress PFP Progressive Federal Party RC Revolutionary Council RDP Reconstruction and Development Programme SAAWU South African Allied Workers’ Union SABRA South African Bureau of Racial Affairs SACC South African Council of Churches SACLA South African Confederation of Labour SACP South African Communist Party SACTU South African Congress of Trade Unions SADET South African Democracy Education Trust SADF South African Defence Force SAIC South African Indian Congress SAIRR South African Institute of Race Relations SANC South African Native Congress SANNC South African Native National Congress SARCHI South African Research Chairs Initiative SASO South African Students’ Organisation Spro-Cas Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society SWANU South West Africa National Union SWAPO South West Africa People’s Organisation TAC Treatment Action Campaign TLGFA Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act TUACC Trade Union Advisory Coordinating Council TUCSA Trade Union Congress of South Africa UAAWU United Automobile and Allied Workers Union UCT University of Cape Town UDF United Democratic Front UDW University of Durban-Westville UF United Front UFH University of Fort Hare Unisa University of South Africa UWC University of the Western Cape UKZN University of KwaZulu-Natal UN United Nations US(A) United States (of America) UWUSA United Workers Union of South Africa WASP Workers and Socialist Party WC Working Committee [of the ANC] WNC Women’s National Coalition WPMAWU Western Province Motor Assembly Workers Union WPSA Workers Party of South Africa
PREFACE
This volume grew out of an initiative of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS). The NIHSS was established by the minister of higher education and training to re-invigorate the humanities and social sciences in South Africa. Launched in 2014, it has two goals. The first is to promote postgraduate studies and to contribute to the development of a new generation of academics. The second is to reinvigorate the humanities and social sciences through a series of catalytic research projects which aim to open up new avenues for scholarship and to assist in and promote the development of relevant research.
This edited volume, The Unresolved National Question: Left Thought Under Apartheid, is part of a broader catalytic project – Hidden Voices: Left Thought under Apartheid. That project’s overall aim is to recover some of the lineages of knowledge production from 1950 to 1990. The project emerged out of an interest in left intellectual contributions towards discussions on race, class, ethnicity and nationalism in South Africa. Specifically, the idea is to look at Hidden Voices – academic voices suppressed by apartheid pressures, and organic intellectual voices outside of the university system, similarly silenced by apartheid.
A number of excellent publications have made available documents from the liberation struggle. In the early 1960s, for example, Gwendolen Carter, Gail Gerhardt and Thomas Karis started collecting documents to begin what is now a seven-volume series – From Protest to Challenge. The Democracy Education Trust has published its six-volume Road to Democracy in South Africa. Allison Drew has edited two volumes of South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A Documentary History . Unisa Press has its Hidden History Series, Jacana Media has its Pocket Biographies, and HSRC Press has its Voices of Liberation Series.
None of these, however, is devoted specifically to publishing left thought under apartheid. The first phase of the Hidden Voices project examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National Question, especially during the apartheid years. We wanted to ensure that the volume represented the broadest possible range of left South African thought since 1950, so instead of imposing a particular understanding of the National Question we identified and selected a number of political traditions, and allowed the authors the freedom to define the question as they believe appropriate – in other words, to explain what they thought was the Unresolved National Question.
We had two successful workshops in Johannesburg – in June 2014 and May 2015 – to discuss the content of papers. Discussions were lively at both workshops – a foretaste, we hope, of the interest and debate that the Unresolved National Question will catalyse.
The volume is structured in two parts. The first section examines four foundational traditions – Marxism-Leninism (as typified in the Colonialism of a Special Type thesis), the Congress tradition, the Trotskyist tradition and Africanism. The second part of the volume explores the various shifts in this debate from the 1960s onwards, and includes chapters on Afrikaner nationalism, ethnic issues, black consciousness, feminism, workerism and