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            <title>ANC in history: Collapse and rebuilding – Part 3</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By the end of the 1930s petitioning had clearly failed and the organisation practically ceased to exist. The presidency of  J. T. Gumede (1927–30) saw a turn towards radicalism, with attempts to link up with workers and engage in strikes, pass-burning and other militant activities. Gumede’s visit to the USSR and links with the Communists alarmed some sections of the ANC. Chiefs, as hereditary leaders, raised their own fears, remarking: ‘The Tsar was a great man in his country but where is he now?’ Gumede was voted out. He was replaced by the organisation’s founder, Pixley ka Seme, who warned of the dangers of radicalism, condemned strikes and causing ‘trouble for the authorities’. The ANC, he said ‘must condemn the spirit of sedition in every form’. Such statements discouraged labour radicals from associating with the ANC and the organisation, already weak, went into deep decline and became practically moribund.]]></description>
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            <title>The ANC and ‘loyalism’: ANC cautiously claims space to demand rights – Part 2</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The establishment of the SANNC was a step towards Africans asserting their rights on a national basis and becoming an independent political voice. But self-representation or assertion in a significant way was difficult, insofar as neither the Crown nor Union government were sympathetic.]]></description>
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            <title>The African National Congress in history and today – Part 1</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Our media is filled with articles on the imminent demise of the ANC. Such themes are buttressed by the increasing accuracy of forecasts deriving from electoral polling, which show the ANC in a dire state, endless media reports and investigations on irregularities, corruption, and complicity in irregular use of force, many of these news items unthinkable 20 years ago.]]></description>
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            <title>Broad lessons of Mandela’s leadership series – Part 6</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It has been repeatedly stressed that it is undesirable to simply use effusive language to describe Nelson Mandela but rather we should understand his qualities and learn from them. This final article of the series on Mandela’s leadership draws broad lessons from Mandela, which may have application to how we deal with difficult issues in our own lives In this final article of the series I attempt to draw broad lessons from Mandela, qualities from which we can learn and possibly apply in our own lives. These qualities include:]]></description>
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            <title>Mandela and the ANC opting for negotiations was not gender neutral – Part 5 of the Mandela ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When it became clear that there was a stalemate, Mandela opted for negotiations. He did this in the midst of violent conflict, between the apartheid regime and the forces for liberation, in his case the ANC and its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe, and on the other side the apartheid forces, primarily the SADF. That conflict and the ranging of forces on both sides was part of the violent history of conquest and resistance in South Africa. Opting for peace had great cultural and gender significance in South Africa given the scourge of violence that has always been a feature of South African life. It was not part of Mandela’s arguments that this would provide an alternative model of masculinity. But when the leader of the ANC’s military wing advanced peace, through negotiations, it did have considerable significance, insofar as Mandela acted out an alternative non-violent model of masculine conduct.]]></description>
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            <title>Nelson Mandela’s masculinity and gender practices –#MandelaLeadershipSeries Part 4</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Studies of Nelson Mandela continue to be dominated by celebration of a person, the character of whose greatness is not probed. There are areas of great complexity attaching to Mandela’s life that are hardly examined. Mandela is justly admired and honoured, but we owe it to him to interrogate his legacies, to make sense of these and form opinions from which we and others can learn. One of the areas that needs attention is that of gender, that is, his relationship to women and men in the context of growing up in very patriarchal societies as a young boy and later as a man. I use patriarchy in the plural because its character varies in different milieux, and in Mandela’s case in his early years in Thembuland compared with the Witwatersrand.]]></description>
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            <title>Imagery and identities in Mandela’s leadership – Part 3</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Imagery has always been important in liberation movement politics and history. In the case of the South African Native National Congress, (the name of the ANC at its inception), the question of dress was always important.  Many people responded with ridicule, suggesting that ANC leaders were dressing like their masters to beg the king and his government to provide some reforms that benefited a section of the ANC.  John Berger, cultural writer said that the suit emerged as the dress code of the ...]]></description>
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            <title>Nelson Mandela’s leadership and “obstinacy” – Part 2</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mandela’s unwillingness to bend and absolute dedication to the Struggle for freedom Nelson Mandela was notoriously stubborn or obstinate, both words that are generally used to connote negative qualities, and unwillingness to recognise new conditions that ought to influence proposed actions. But the dictionaries suggest that the word “stubborn” may indicate not only “pig-headedness” or “mulishness” or unwillingness to be open to reasoning and persuasion, but also steadfastness, holding to a course of action as a matter of principle. In that sense the same words “stubborn” or “obstinate” may point to both the strengths and weaknesses of Mandela. Once Mandela decided on a course of action it was very difficult to persuade him to change direction.]]></description>
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            <title>Revisiting Nelson Mandela’s journeys in leadership – Part 1</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Celebrated as Nelson Mandela is, his life and its interpretation have evoked much controversy. It is a good antidote to confront and engage with the controversies and not treat the meanings of Mandela’s life as being “obvious” or make references to his being a global “icon” as if that constitutes an evaluation. If we are to learn from Mandela, we need to engage with what he did, how he exercised leadership and what considerations he had in mind. This series of articles, comprising revised versions of earlier academic and media articles, attempts to address and interpret some of these qualities. It is not suggested that this is the last word on the subject. I hope that many others will engage and take the debate further.]]></description>
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            <title>Understanding the Freedom Charter in changing times</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Freedom Charter does not have an obvious interpretation which stands in place from generation to generation. How we interpret the document is affected by where we are located, what our interests are in looking at the Charter, what we hope for, and what resonates with the Charter in terms of aspirations that people have for a better life. Obviously, the conditions - of any time - impact on what can be done to provide basic needs and realise the aspirations of the Charter. It's now 70 years since the Freedom Charter was adopted at the Congress of the People on 26 June 1955. There are still many things to learn about the Charter, some of which entail what I would suggest ought to be a revision of how we understand the document.]]></description>
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