Publisher Description

It is commonly held that the ANC – after its banning in 1960 and the imprisonment of its leaders – largely disappeared off the face of South Africa until public support for it revived in the wake of the Soweto uprising of 1976. This book takes issue with that view. Drawing on substantial oral testimony, Raymond Suttner develops a convincing case that internally based activists, sometimes working independently of the ANC in exile and sometimes in combination, were able to reconstitute networks within South Africa after the organization's banning.

Author Biography

Raymond Suttner, who lives in Johannesburg, is a part-time professor at Rhodes University and an Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa. Initially a legal academic, he later obtained an interdisciplinary PHD in history, political studies and sociology. During the apartheid era he was jailed for his activities as an ANC underground operative, as described in one of his earlier works, Inside Apartheid's Prison (2001). More recently, his book The ANC Underground was published by Jacana (2008).

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