The Origins of Non-Racialism

Informationen zum Autor David Everatt is the Head of the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Focuses on a talented! brave! but tiny minority of whites - liberals! radicals! communists! Trotskyists! humanists! Christians! idealists - who rejected the growing racism of post-war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black and white. Inhaltsverzeichnis Whites and the ANC 1945-1950; the emergence of white opposition to apartheid! 1950-1952; 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 liberalisml whites and the congress of the people; the freedom charter and the politics of non-racialism! 1956-1960.

Autorentext

David Everatt

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
Focuses on a talented, brave, but tiny minority of whites - liberals, radicals, communists, Trotskyists, humanists, Christians, idealists - who rejected the growing racism of post-war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black and white.

Inhalt

Whites and the ANC 1945-1950; the emergence of white opposition to apartheid, 1950-1952; 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 liberalisml whites and the congress of the people; the freedom charter and the politics of non-racialism, 1956-1960.