The history of geopolitics soviet phobia and anti-communism in South Africa
By: Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Publisher: Skotaville Publishing (Pty) Ltd.
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780620949446
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Political activity; History; Anti-communist movements; Politics and government; Geopolitics; Anticommunisme; Politique et gouvernement; Géopolitique; Political participation; South African Communist Party
Description: "The year 2021 is the centenary of the South African Communists Party. In 1961 the SACP underground marked its 40th anniversary by distributing ten of thousands of copies of a leaflet whose content is systematically discussed in various chapter of the book. This leaflet pointed out that Communists stood out for the direct opposite what the anti-communists stood for. It did not matter whether these putrid anti-communists were representatives of the apartheid regime, National Party, African National Congress (Gang of eight), Pan Africanist Congress, western powers and US government.  The 1961 leaflet, among other things boldly declared: The National Party cannot destroy or supress communism'; You can kill people-but you cannot kill ideas, least of all, noble and true ideas like communism."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Education and the Cold war as an ideological struggle: the ideological battle for African student's mind late 1950's to 1960s; title: Facets of anti-communism in South Africa; title: The Cold war and the United States of America's anti-communist policy and propaganda in Southern Africa: the emergence and consolidation of race and racism as a foreign policy instruments; title: The Afrikaner nationalists' struggle against communism : from an ideological battle of ideas to military action in Angola during the 1970s; title: Cuito Cuanavale: the linkage question and geopolitics of war and peace in Southern Africa; title: Anti- communism, factionalism and ideological battles between the African National Congress, 'the gang of eight' (African Nationalists) and the South African Communists Party; title: From a united front to a disunited front: the Pan Africanists Congress's anti-communists propaganda against the African National Congress and South African Communist Party.