Entries (RSS) Hold Up the Sun (episode 2): Enter the Masses (1949-1958)
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The theme of militance and united action are central to this episode, the main focus of which is the tumultuous events of the 1950s and with these, the transformation of the ANC into a mass-based and militant movement. Women take their rightful place in the foreground, as a militant and determined force in the struggle against passes. Rapid industrial growth and urbanisation in the postwar years provided new possibilities and new social movements. Culture and music take root in South African townships. Rural struggles are also important in this period, in the most democratic process ever experienced in South Africa, the ANC and its allies put forward their vision of the future in the freedom Charter. This vision that “South Africa belongs to all that live in it” and that is one that informs the struggle for democracy in the decades to come. Price (ZA) R130.00 |
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