This book tells some of the stories and hidden histories that
help explain our past. It focuses on a talented, brave, but tiny
minority of whites, liberals, radicals, communists, Trotskyists,
humanists, Christians, and idealists who rejected the growing
racism of post-war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing
line between black and white. From the Torch Commando that could
mobilize tens of thousands of whites at the beginning of the 1950s
to the Liberal Party and Congress of Democrats that could only
boast a few hundred members by the end of the decade, white
activists fought to maintain the vision of racial equality in an
increasingly divided society.
Their African nationalist allies fought a harder battle within
the ANC and other organizations in order to keep alive the notion
that black and white could struggle together and live peacefully.
Together, black and white activists developed a theory of struggle
and ways of mobilizing that maintained the ideal of a non-racial
South Africa. The democratic state ushered in after 1994 can be
traced back directly to the work that activists undertook in the
1950s and after.
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