Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto WeSizwe (häftad)

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Format: Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Ohio Short Histories of Africa
Antal sidor: 156
Utgivningsdatum: 2012-08-06
Förlag: Ohio University Press
Dimensioner: 175 x 107 x 13 mm
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ISBN: 9780821420263

Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto WeSizwe

Name: Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto WeSizwe
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Author: Janet Cherry
ISBN: 9780821420263

South Africa's Liberation Army, 1960s-1990s

av Janet Cherry

Häftad, Engelska, 2012-08-06

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Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century-but it never got to "march triumphant into Pretoria." MK-as it was known-was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government. A small group of revolutionaries committed to the seizure of power, MK discovered its principal members engaged in negotiated settlement with the enemy and was disbanded soon after. The history of MK is one of paradox and contradiction, of successes and failures. In this short study, which draws widely on the personal experiences of-and commentary by-MK soldiers, Janet Cherry offers a new and nuanced account of the Spear of the Nation. She presents in broad outline the various stages of MK's thirty-year history, considers the difficult strategic and moral problems the revolutionary army faced, and argues that its operations are likely to be remembered as a just war conducted with considerable restraint.

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Janet Cherry is a human rights activist, researcher, and academic who teaches at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She has written and published on the history of the liberation struggle for the South African Democratic Education Trust.