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The ANC's Early Years: Nation, Class and Place in South Africa before 1940 book cover

1st Edition

The ANC's Early Years Nation, Class and Place in South Africa before 1940

By Peter Limb Copyright 2025
608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge
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The African National Congress (ANC) is the oldest and most durable of African nationalist movements, not only in South Africa but also across the continent. Since 1994, it has governed the country as leader of the Tripartite Alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Communist Party (SACP). The early decades of the twentieth century saw the establishment,... Read more

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Illustrations

Sources of illustrations

Tables

Preface

1. Introduction

Part 1: Nation, Class, and Place in South African History

2. Perspectives on ANC-Labour History

3. Black Labour in South Africa to 1940

4. Early African Political Organisations and Black Labour

Part 2: The ANC and Labour, the First Decade

5. The SANNC and African Working People

6. To “Heartily … Assist the Working Movement as Best They Can”: Congress and Black Labour in the Transvaal, 1912-1919

7. “Join Our Union—You Will Find Good Result”: Congress and Labour in the Cape, Natal and Free State, 1912–1919

Part 3: The Second Decade

8. “A Strong Seed in a Stony Bed”: The 1920s

9. “The Ruling Class is Getting Lost in the Mist and Sea of Selfishness”: Natal in the 1920s

Chapter 10 “I-Kongilesi Lilizwi ezindlwini” (Congress’s Name is Household): The Transvaal, Cape and Orange Free State in the 1920s

Part 4: The Third Decade

11. From “Culpable Inertia” to Rebuilding: The ANC and Labour in the 1930s

12. Moderate Centre, Militant Province? The Cape in the 1930s

13. “A Very, Very Wide Influence, Even When … Dead”: The Transvaal, Natal, and Orange Free State in the 1930s

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

Biography

Peter Limb

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