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    Thumbs up THe Last Jacobins of Africa: The ANC and the making of modern South Africa

    A new book ( in Kindle Format ) by Dr James Myburgh the editor of Politcsweb

    https://www.politicsweb.co.za/iservi...-early-years-i


    You can read an excerpt at the Amazon listing

    https://www.amazon.com/Last-Jacobins...9024528&sr=8-1

    I have not yet read the whole book but from the excerpt I would suggest that if you only purchase / read one book this year it should be this one !
    The book content explains -- using the actual primary source documents -- exactly how the ANC hoodwinked most and grabbed power ( following a carefully worked out ( Soviet USSR ) SACP agenda
    MANY popularly held beliefs / myths are going to be rudely shattered.
    One is going to be left with deep unease regarding FW / the NP Cabinet / the BB / assorted others ( useful idiots )

    It will appeal particularly to Messor -- and others of similar thought process. ( Although ALL thinking South Africans need to read it )

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    Default Re: THe Last Jacobins of Africa: The ANC and the making of modern South Africa

    Although ALL thinking South Africans need to read it )
    Critical shortage of those at the moment. They all at the GBV march.

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    Thumbs down Re: THe Last Jacobins of Africa: The ANC and the making of modern South Africa

    The actual document

    Programme of the South African Communist Party 1962

    https://www.marxists.org/history/int...ad-freedom.htm

    One wonders -- what were "you" doing in 1962 ? ( Can you even remember )

    WHAT were you doing Lucas Daniel Barnard .... ?

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    Exclamation Re: THe Last Jacobins of Africa: The ANC and the making of modern South Africa

    For those that claim not to read -- and appear to not be worried about becoming "bait" ..

    The sheer banality of the whole thing ....

    Michael Harmel (1915-1974): A South African Communist and His Discourse
    Oralek, Milan
    2020

    This thesis explores the life and work of a South African journalist, editor, and activist Michael Alan Harmel (1915–1974), a political mentor and friend of Nelson Mandela. A resolute believer in racial equality and Marxism-Leninism, Harmel devoted his life to fighting, with “the pen” as well as “the sword”, segregation and apartheid, and promoting an alliance of communists with the African National Congress as a stepping stone to socialism in South Africa.
    Part 1, after tracing his Jewish-Lithuanian and Irish family roots, follows Harmel from his birth to 1940 when, having joined the Communist Party of South Africa

    https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xm...dle/10063/8854

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    ttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-10-16-barbara-harmel-even-the-children-of-revolutionaries-have-childhoods/

    THESE are ( some of ) the people that provided the intellectual thought / theories / philosophies that underpin the conditions in which we now find ourselves !
    The picture that is painted ( and which we are encouraged to believe ) is that they were -- "quite-normal" ...

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