The Origins of Non-Racialism: White opposition to apartheid in the 1950s

David Everatt

The Origins of Non-Racialism

White opposition to apartheid in the 1950s

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David Everatt

Publisher:: Wits University Press
Online publication date:: April 2018
Print publication year:: 2010
Online ISBN:: 9781868146581

Subjects:: Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History

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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.

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The Origins of Non-Racialism

White opposition to apartheid in the 1950s

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-ix

List of abbreviations
pp x-xii

Introduction
pp 1-8

Chapter 1 - Whites and the ANC, 1945–1950
pp 9-32

Chapter 2 - The emergence of white opposition to apartheid, 1950–1953
pp 33-47

Chapter 3 - Multiracialism: Communist plot or anti-Communist ploy?
pp 48-71

Chapter 4 - From CPSA to SACP via CST: Socialist responses to African nationalism, 1952–1954
pp 72-97

Chapter 5 - The South African Congress of Democrats
pp 98-122

Chapter 6 - The Liberal Party of South Africa
pp 123-144

Chapter 7 - Overhauling liberalism
pp 145-168

Chapter 8 - The Congress of the People
pp 169-194

Chapter 9 - The Freedom Charter and the politics of non-racialism, 1956–1960
pp 195-214

Notes
pp 215-248

Bibliography
pp 249-264

Index
pp 265-273

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