The People's War (ePub)
Reflections of an ANC Cadre
(Sprache: Englisch)
A great deal of the revolutionary work that Charles Nqakula undertookas an ANC underground cadre and combatant of Umkhonto we Sizwewas in the Eastern Cape. This book is a well-documented and detailedrecollection of those difficult and dangerous times when...
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A great deal of the revolutionary work that Charles Nqakula undertookas an ANC underground cadre and combatant of Umkhonto we Sizwewas in the Eastern Cape. This book is a well-documented and detailedrecollection of those difficult and dangerous times when detention,imprisonment, torture, and even death were always imminent.It required massive courage and heroism to be part of that arrayof outstanding leaders and cadres of the revolutionary movements.Readers will be convinced that Charles and his wife/partner Nosiviwewere selfless, dedicated, loyal, disciplined, and brave freedom fighters.This book is noteworthy because Charles remembers, gives due credit,and attaches names to the many comrades who participated in thatheroic struggle with him and Nosiviwe. It is difficult to understand andappreciate the dialectical interconnectedness of the individual and thecollective. The collective is always more important than the individualbut the collective is at the same time the sum total of the individualcontributions. In this book, Charles successfully portrays that delicateand complex relationship. The People's War describes the work undertaken by Charles and Nosiviwe in the ANC underground and MK units in a dispassionatemanner without any self-praise or grandstanding. Charles also recountshow Nosiviwe nearly lost her life in an ambush carried out by Unita onan MK convoy as well as an attempted assassination outside their homein Cyrildene. In the latter chapters of the book, Charles writes about politicaldevelopments and processes from 1990 up to the present time. He recounts his work as a mediator in the conflicts in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mauritania, the pain and anguish at the tragic murder of their son, Chumani Siyavuya, and comments on the debilitating challenges of factionalism, election slates, and corruption degrading the integrity, unity, reputation, values, and electoral support of the ANC.
Autoren-Porträt von Charles Nqakula
Charles Nqakula was born in Cradock in the Eastern Cape province on 13 September 1942. As an adult, he became a journalist and, in the early 1970s, he joined Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion) in King William's Town. He left Imvo in 1976 and joined East London's Daily Dispatch. Working with ThenjiweMtintso, he helped to influence black journalists in the Border region (the main towns of which were East London, King William's Town, and Queenstown) to join the Union of Black Journalists (UBJ). Nqakula was elected Deputy President to Joe Thloloe at UBJ's National Congress that year. Nqakula was banned and declared a prohibited immigrant in terms of the Aliens Act of 1937, and after he was arrested for entering South Africa 'illegally', he skipped bail and went into exile. He was trained militarily and politically at the MK camps in Angola, Russia, and East Germany before being infiltrated back to South Africa to build underground structures for the ANC. After the unbanning of the ANC, SACP, and other people's organisations, he was elected as the SACP'sDeputy General Secretary to General Secretary Chris Hani. After Hani's assassination in 1993, Nqakula became the general secretary and, later, the Party's chairperson. He was co-opted into the ANC's NEC towards the end of 1993. In 1999, Nqakula became a parliamentarian and subsequently a Minister of Police and of Defence. President Zuma pulled him out f Parliament in 2009 and made him his political adviser. He asked him in 2010 to lead South Africa's mediation of the Zimbabwe political impasse and appointed him South Africa's ambassador to Mozambique in 2012. Nqakula's mediation included a number of countries when Thabo Mbeki was president. The longest facilitation by Nqakula under Mbeki was in Burundi from 2006 to 2009.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Charles Nqakula
- 2017, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1928341365
- ISBN-13: 9781928341369
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2017
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