The Congress Movement, based on primary and secondary sources including some 80 interviews dating back to the early 1960s, uniquely combines narrative and analysis. Volume 1 traces the unfolding of the congress movement from its beginnings early in the 20th Century and looks at socialist and other forces that played an integral part in its formation. The 1918-1920 upsurge, which included an African mineworkers' strike, played a key role in this development and laid the basis in the 1920s for a partnership between the ICU and ANC. CONTENTS: <ul>
<li>TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF THE ANC AND THE ICU: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF A RANGE OF VIEWS.</li>
<li>The CI's "Black Republic" Resolution.</li>
<li>The ICU as a Rural Movement―Helen Bradford.</li>
<li>Erosion of the Historical Method, 1970s–80s: Neo-Marxists and "Social Historians."</li>
<li>Characterizing the ANC in Terms Of a Relationship to State Power―Susan Booysen and Paul Rich.</li>
<li>The ANC, Popular Struggle, and Marginal Groupings―Philip Bonner.</li>
<li>The Discontinuous Nature of ANC History―Tom Lodge.</li>
<li>A National-Political History of the ANC―Peter Walshe.</li>
<li>The ANC and Labour–Continuity in Congress History―Peter Limb.</li>
<li>Origins of the ANC―André Odendaal.</li>
<li>THE WORKERS' UPSURGE OF 1918-20: BIRTH OF THE CONGRESS MASS MOVEMENT.</li>
<li>The ISL and the Establishment of the IWA.</li>
<li>Development of the IWA Prior to the Upsurge.</li>
<li>Tensions Within the IWA.</li>
<li>Wages Movement of 1918.</li>
<li>The Moffat Report.</li>
<li>Pass Campaign of 1919.</li>
<li>The 1920 Strike.</li>
<li>National Congress and the Formation of a National Workers' Organisation, 1920.</li>
<li>Response of the Ruling Class.</li>
<li>Mahabane Comes to the Fore.</li>
<li>CLEMENTS KADALIE AND SELBY MSIMANG, 1919-1921: CONGRESS, THE ICWU, AND THE ICU.</li>
<li>Kadalie's Background.</li>
<li>Early Days of the ICU.</li>
<li>Cape Town Strike, 1919.</li>
<li>Selby Msimang's Background.</li>
<li>SANNC Conference of May 2910: African Worker Organisation and Meshach Pelem.</li>
<li>Establishment of the ICWU at Bloemfontein, July 1920.</li>
<li>Problems of Structure Arising From the Bloemfontein Conference.</li>
<li>The ICU Claims the Role of a Nationwide Movement.</li>
<li>The Port Elizabeth Events of 1920: Masabalala and Msimang.</li>
<li>Kadalie and Masabalala Break with Msimang at the Time of the July 1921 ICWU Conference.</li>
<li>Msimang Drifts Into the Camp of the Joint Councils.</li>
<li>THE 1922 STRIKE AND UPRISING: WAS IT ANTI-BLACK?</li>
<li>State of the Parliamentary Parties Preceding the Strike.</li>
<li>The 1922 Strike.</li>
<li>Different Streams in the Strike.</li>
<li>Role of Afrikaner Nationalist Politicians.</li>
<li>Role of the Blacks in the Strike.</li>
<li>The Cape, the ICU, and the 1922 Strike.</li>
<li>BLACK ORGANISATIONS IN TRANSITION, 1921-EARLY 1924: RELATIONS WITH THE PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES.</li>
<li>The ICU's October 1921 Conference.</li>
<li>The ICU's 1923 Conference.</li>
<li>The Contradictions Continue: ICU and ICWU.</li>
<li>A New Phase: Growing Disillusionment of Black Leaders with Smuts.</li>
<li>Annual Conference of Congress, May 1923.</li>
<li>The ICU in the New Phase.</li>
<li>The CP's Attitude Towards the ICU and Black Nationalism into Early 1924.</li>
<li>The ICU's January 1924 Conference.</li>
<li>THE 1924 GENERAL ELECTION: WHITE-BLACK FRONT AGAINST SMUTS?</li>
<li>Pact Policies for the General Election.</li>
<li>The Pact and the Mining Industry.</li>
<li>The Communists and the 1924 Election.</li>
<li>Cape Black Leaders Attempt to Establish a United Front for the General Election.</li>
<li>The All-African Convention, May 1924.</li>
<li>Mahabane and Segregation: Run-up to the Election.</li>
<li>ANC Annual Conference, May 1924, and the General Election.</li>
<li>Cape Blacks in the Election Campaign.</li>
<li>Election Results: How Did the Blacks Vote?</li>
<li>Contradictory Nature of Hertzog's Segregation Policy in its Early Phase, Including in His Smithfield Address.</li>
<li>THE ICU AND ANC, MID-1924 TO APRIL 1926: NON-COOPERATION AND EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH A UNITED FRONT.</li>
<li>The ICU Comes to the Rand.</li>
<li>ICU–ANC Relations in the Setting of the ANC's 1925 Conference.</li>
<li>Selope Thelma's Difficulties with Congress, Mid-1923 to 1925.</li>
<li>The ICU's 1925 Conference.</li>
<li>CU–ANC and the Pass Issue in 1925.</li>
<li>IU–ANC: Organisational-Structural Aspects.</li>
<li>ICU–ANC: The Social Aspect.</li>
<li>Receding of Garveyist Influence in the ICU: Role of Thaele.</li>
<li>Kadalie's Internationalist Outlook.</li>
<li>CP–ICU, 1924–Early 1926.</li>
<li>Growing Disillusionment with Hertzog.</li>
<li>Mahabane Calls for a National Convention.</li>
<li>ANC in Special Convention, January 1926.</li>
<li>The Special Convention and the Question of Mass Struggle.</li>
<li>Problem of the United Front Between the ICU and the ANC.</li>
<li>Postscript: Kadalie Maintains the Role of the ICU as a Potential Wing of the ANC.</li>
<li>STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF THE ICU, 1925-APRIL 1926: TRADE UNION, AFRICAN-COLOURED ALLIANCE, OR AFRICAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT?</li>
<li>The ICU, The Stevedores, and the Rest of the Dockworkers.</li>
<li>Growth of a Town-Based Branch Structure.</li>
<li>ICU Offices, Manned by Provincial Secretaries, Tend to Undermine the Branch Structure.</li>
<li>Opposition to Tyamzashe's Bureaucratic Methods.</li>
<li>The Communists and the Question of the ICU'[s Realignment on a Trade Union Basis.</li>
<li>The ICU's 1925 Constitution.</li>
<li>A Coloured or an African Organisation?</li>
<li>Problems of the ICU's Leading Organs.</li>
<li>La Guma's Inspection Report.</li>
<li>National Council Meeting and Conference, April 1926, In Relation to Structural Issues.</li>
</ul>

The Congress Movement: The Unfolding of the Congress Alliance 1912-1961

History

Neame, Sylvia

Africa

Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

The Congress Movement, based on primary and secondary sources including some 80 interviews dating back to the early 1960s, uniquely combines narrative and analysis. Volume 2 examines the intricate development of the ICU and the ANC in the second half of the 1920s. Various trends of reformism and radicalism affected these two organizations. This later led to the beginning of the breakup of the ICU with the secession of the Natal contingent, in part under the influence of a narrow ethnic Zulu nationalism. The breakwaway also took place in the wake of an important phase in which the ICU leaders had become identified with a peasant uprising on white-owned farms. CONTENTS: <ul>
<li>The ICU, LIBERALS, LABOURITES, AND BRITISH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, 1926-28: RECONSTRUCTION OF SOUTH AFRICA'S SOCIOECONOMIC RELATIONS?</li>
<li>The Johannesburg Joint Council Liberals.</li>
<li>The Problem of a United Front with Liberals and Labourites.</li>
<li>The Economic and Wage Commission: 1925–26.</li>
<li>The Issue of the Extension of the Labour Legislation to African Workers: 1927–29.</li>
<li>The Retreat of the JJC Liberals Begins.</li>
<li>The Question of the Registration and Recognition of the ICU: 1924–mid-1928.</li>
<li>A New Phase Opens During 1928 in Regard to the ICU’s Status.</li>
<li>The Reorganisation of the South African Trade Union Movement.</li>
<li>Labour and the Question of the Promotion of the Manufacturing Industry.</li>
<li>The ICU and the Economic and Wage Commission.</li>
<li>The ICU at the Time of Its 1926 Conference.</li>
<li>Developments in the British Labour Movement, Particularly From 1925 to 1927.</li>
<li>Kadalie and the Labour Movement in Europe.</li>
<li>THE AFRICAN MOVEMENT IN 1926-27: THE PROBLEM OF REFORMISM.</li>
<li>Congress Leaders Ensure That the ICU Decision for a Political Bureau is Dropped.</li>
<li>The Weakening of the Position of the Radicals In and Around the ANC's 1926 Conference.</li>
<li>A Right Wing, Centering on Thema and Selby Msimang, Begins to Shape Up in the ANC.</li>
<li>The ANC's National Executive Committee Position 1926.</li>
<li>Mahabane Returns from Overseas and the ANC's January 1927 Conference.</li>
<li>Mahabane and the Franchise, First Half of 1927: The Convention of Chiefs.</li>
<li>The Response of Selope Thema and Richard Msimang to the Convention of Chiefs.</li>
<li>Some Comments on the ICU's Group and Regional Profile.</li>
<li>The Decline of the African Movement on the Rand.</li>
<li>Municipal Locations Become Important Places for Organisational Activity.</li>
<li>What Role Did the Shift of the ICU Axis to Natal Play in the Anticommunist Move?</li>
<li>CHAMPION-KADALIE ALLIANCE, 1926-APRIL 1927: ANTI-COMMUNISM GATHERS PACE.</li>
<li>Champion's Birth and Childhood.</li>
<li>Champion Goes to Johannesburg: His Experience on the Mines and Role in the TNMCA.</li>
<li>Champion Joins the ICU.</li>
<li>Champion and the Economic and Wage Commission.</li>
<li>Champion and the Natal African Congress.</li>
<li>Champion's Early Activities in Natal.</li>
<li>Champion and the National ICU in Early 1926.</li>
<li>Champion's Methods in Natal Lead Him into Conflict With the Communists.</li>
<li>Kadalie Challenges His Ban.</li>
<li>Kadalie's Growing Financial Dependence on Champion.</li>
<li>Loosening of Central Control.</li>
<li>Rising Tensions Between the ICU and the Communist Party.</li>
<li>The Conflicts Become Centered in Johannesburg.</li>
<li>Was the Anti-Communist Move Directed Against La Guma?</li>
<li>The ICU National Council Meeting: December 1926.</li>
<li>The Communist Party Fails to Mobilize an Effective Opposition.</li>
<li>The Reaction of Mbeki, 'Mote, and Khaile to the December NC Meeting.</li>
<li>The Influence of JT Gumede on His Return from Brussels, April 1927.</li>
<li>The ICU's April 1927 Conference.</li>
<li>THE LAND QUESTION COMES TO THE FORE, 1927-29: RURAL UPSURGE.</li>
<li>The Question of Labour-Tenacy.</li>
<li>The Native Administration Act: 1927.</li>
<li>The Madeley Affair.</li>
<li>Balinger, the Liberals, and Rural Questions.</li>
<li>The Liberals, Kadalie, and the Pass Issue.</li>
<li>The ICU and the Rural Question: 1920–26.</li>
<li>The Communists and the Land Question.</li>
<li>The ICU and the Land Question: mid-1926 to April 1927.</li>
<li>Kadalie and the Land Question.</li>
<li>The ANC–ICU Relations in the Midst of the Revolt and Their Respective Attitudes to the Land Question.</li>
<li>The Nature of the Upsurge.</li>
<li>Forms of Resistance.</li>
<li>CHAMPION BREAKS WITH THE NATIONAL ICU, 1928: RULE OF ZULU NATIONALISM.</li>
<li>Champion's Conference of Natal Chiefs: 1930.</li>
<li>King Solomon's Contacts with the ANC and ICU: 1930.</li>
<li>Champion's Banishment, 1930: Its Connection to His Relations with the Zulu King.</li>
<li>Champion, the Durban Riots of 1929, and the Issue of a Location: The De Waal Enquiry.</li>
<li>Natal's Sugar Fraternity, JL Dube, and the Issue of a Durban Location.</li>
<li>Champion's Disappointment and His Banishment.</li>
<li>Champion, Dunn, and King Solomon's Domain, 1927–28.</li>
<li>Champion at the Helm.</li>
<li>Kadalie Returns from His European Trip: November 1927.</li>
<li>The ICU National Council Meeting: November 1927.</li>
<li>The ICU Special Congress, Kimberley: December 1927.</li>
<li>Kadalie Moves Against Champion: January 1928 Council Meeting.</li>
<li>The ICU Annual Conference: April 1928.</li>
<li>The ANC's Convention of Chiefs, April 1928, and Zulu Nationalism.</li>
<li>Secession.</li>
<li>The Impotence of the ICU's Radical Nationalists.</li>
<li>Ballinger Fails to Heal the Split.</li>
</ul>

HSRC Press

This extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid and racism and by profession a historian has written a highly personal account, in an original style. It casts a particularly sharp light on the unfolding of a police dominated apartheid system in the 1960s. The author incorporates some of her experiences in prisons and police stations around the country, including the fabricated trial she faced while imprisoned in Port Elizabeth, one of the many such trials which took place in the eastern Cape. But her focus is on Barberton Prison. Here she was imprisoned together with a small number of other white women political prisoners, most of whom had stood trial and been sentenced in Johannesburg in 1964-5 for membership to an illegal organisation, the Communist Party. It is a little known story. Not even the progressive party MP Helen Suzman found her way here. Barberton Prison, a maximum security prison, part of a farm jail complex in the eastern part of what was then known as the Transvaal province, was far from any urban centre. The women were kept in a small space at one end of the prison in extreme isolation under a regime of what can only be called psychological warfare, carried out on the instructions of the ever more powerful (and corrupt) security apparatus. A key concern for the author was the mental and psychological symptoms which emerged in herself and her fellow prisoners and the steps they took to maintain their sanity. It is a narrative partly based on diary entries, written in a minute hand on tissue paper, which escaped the eye of the authorities. Moreover, following her release in April 1967 - she had been altogether incarcerated for some three years - she produced a full script in the space of two or three months. The result is immediacy, spontaneity, authenticity; a story full of searing detail. It is also full of a fighting spirit, pervaded by a sharp intellect, a capacity for fine observation and a sense of humour typical of the women political prisoners at Barberton. A crucial theme in Sylvia Neame's account is the question of whether something positive emerged out of her experience and, if so, what exactly it was.

Imprisoned: The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid

Jacana Media

Historian Sylvia Neame portrays, from a unique vantage point, the unfolding of the peace process in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a scholar, a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, and a former prisoner of the apartheid regime, Neame weaves together her personal contributions with historical accounts to offer rare insight into the struggle to end apartheid 
PARTIAL CONTENTS: Prologue. RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE. Nelson Mandela Takes the Initiative. Was Mandela Selling the ANC Down the River? The Parallel Strategy of Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki. Communists Take an Ultra-Radical Stand. A Qualitative Shift in National and International Conditions. An Alliance Between the ANC and Imperialist Capital? Timing of the Start of Negotiations. The Structure of the National-Democratic Revolution in South Africa. Transitional Mechanisms in the Framework of the Negotiation Process. Resistance to Neocolonialism, the Key Content of South African Liberation. The Kabwe Conference, June 1985. "ANC Statement on Negotiations: October 9, 1987." Conclusions Concerning the Mandela Talks. Conclusions Regarding the Secret Afrikaner Nationalist–Exile ANC Dialogue Group. The Constitutional Committee The ANC's Anniversary (January 8) Statements, 1987–1990: A Shift. The In-House Seminar on "Constitutional Guidelines." The ANC's Fragmented Organisation on the Negotiation Front. "Constitutional Guidelines," Including My Response. The SACP Conference Document, April 1989. Drafting the Harare Declaration. Confusion Reigns. De Klerk's Speech on 2 February 1990. Uncertainty Continues as the Exiles Return. EXTRACTS FROM MY DIARY. October 1985–New Year's Eve 1989. INTERNAL PAPERS ADDRESSED TO THE SACP AND THE ANC. We Need to Prepare Ourselves for New Possible Tasks. Response to Discussion Document: There Is a Danger That the Party Will Be Isolated. Some Suggestions in Connection with the Present Strategy and Tactics of the Liberation Movement. Work in the Bantustans. The Death Squads: White and Black. ANC Platform for Negotiations. A Response to "Constitutional Guidelines for a Democratic South Africa" (Extract). Question of an Interim Phase (Extract). Response to the SACP's New Draft Programme, "The Path to Power." Response to ANC Discussion Paper on the Issue of Negotiations. Response to a Party Analysis (Extract). Prospects for a Negotiated Settlement.

The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa: I Look Back 30 Years

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The Congress Movement: The Unfolding of the Congress Alliance 1912-1961

The Congress Movement: The Unfolding of the Congress Alliance 1912-1961

Imprisoned: The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid

The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa: I Look Back 30 Years