Namibia's Liberation Struggle

The Two-edged Sword

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

Av Colin Leys, John S. Saul, John S. (Customer) Saul

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Students of armed liberation struggle should find much to challenge received wisdom.It took 23 years of armed struggle before Namibia could gain its independence from South Africa in March 1990. SWAPO's victory was remarkable in the face of an overwhelmingly superior enemy. How this came about, and at what cost,is the subject of this study which is based on unpublished documents and extensive interviews with a large range of the key activists in the struggle. The study should be of interest to everyone concerned with southern Africa.North America: Ohio U Press

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Utgivningsdatum1995-01-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt352 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagJames Currey
ISBN9780852553749

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Part 1 The struggle: diplomacy by other means - SWAPO's liberation war, Susan Brown; SWAPO - the politics of exile, John S. Saul and Colin Leys; SWAPO inside Namibia, Colin Leys and John S. Saul; the churches, Philip Steenkamp. Part 2 The impact - three studies: the Namibian student movement - its role and effects, Sipho S. Maseko; state and civil society - policing in transition, Colin Leys; war, peace and social classes, Chris Tapscott. Part 3 The legacy: SWAPO in office, Lauren Dobell; the legacy - an afterword, John S. Saul and Colin Leys.

... Leys and Saul write about the past with a present agenda in mind. They wish to understand why a party which proclaimed socialism for so long has, since coming to power, followed a capitalist path and adopted what they call a neo-colonial economic strategy. They find the answer to lie, in part, in the suppression of democracy within SWAPO, which they attribute mainly to the brutalising effects of the war. And so they speak of the outcome as liberation without democracy, on the grounds that the present order is not really democratic because it does not empower the masses. And they reject any Robespierre-like justification that the terror used served a just purpose, in this case the ejection of South Africa from Namibia. -