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Govan Mbeki
Govan Mbeki (1910-2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political theorist and practitioner. Sentenced to life in prison in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela and others, he was sent to the notorious Robben Island prison, where he continued to write even as tension grew between himself, Mandela, and other leaders over the future of the national liberation movement. As one of the greatest leaders of the antiapartheid movement, and the father of Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa from 1999 to 2008, the elder Mbeki holds a unique position in South African politics and history. This biography by noted historian Colin Bundy goes beyond the narrative details of his long life: it analyzes his thinking, expressed in his writings over fifty years. Bundy helps establish what is distinctive about Mbeki: as African nationalist and as committed Marxist - and more than any other leader of the liberation movement - he sought to link theory and practice, ideas and action. Drawing on exclusive interviews Bundy did with Mbeki, careful analysis of his writings, and the range of scholarship about his life, this biography is personal, reflective, thoroughly researched, and eminently readable.
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Editorial
There are ten articles in this general issue. In regional terms, one deals with pre-colonial south-east Africa (the area of contemporary Mozambique and Zimbabwe between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers); five are on Rhodesia/Zimbabwe; four are on South Africa, including a review article. In disciplinary terms, the papers are predominantly by historians and social scientists, plus two literary scholars (one of these reviewing recent books on higher education in South Africa). Only two of these papers are thematically close: they deal with aspects of Zimbabwean politics in the 21st century. The rest range widely in subject matter, linked only by the fact that they represent original research conducted mainly by scholars within southern Africa: nine of twelve authors are from within the region.
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The 11 articles in this general issue deal with three southern African countries and their international links; they are drawn from the disciplines of criminology, urban studies, international relations and history; chronologically, they span the precolonial, colonial and postcolonial eras. Diverse and various, certainly: yet serendipity has created some fascinating links, overlaps and conversations between the articles.
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