Opposition in South Africa

This book tells the story of three Black menZ. K. Matthews, Nelson Mandela, and Stephen Bikowho committed their lives to win freedom for all South Africans. Using a sociopsychological retrospective, Juckes interweaves accounts of the lives of these three men with sociopolitical developments to reveal the complex interaction that occurs between social processes and individual actors, revealing how leaders come into being and how their actions influence social developments. Each man's political character captured the demands of the time and used the available resources of his age in the quest for freedom; the pressureover timefrom the activities of these three men and the movements they supported made liberation inevitable.