Military Combat Work
The Reconstitution of the ANC's Armed Underground, 1971-1976
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2137658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thula Simpson (0000-0002-5992-3948, University of Pretoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-122 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0184 • E-ISSN: 1469-2872 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00020184.2011.557579 |
| OpenAlex | W2024785989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article describes the African National Congress (ANC) underground in South Africa in the years immediately \npreceding the 1976 Soweto uprising, and it makes three main contributions to the existing literature on the topic. \nThe first is primarily descriptive, and involves providing greater detail than has hitherto been offered on the \nANC’s clandestine organisational presence in neighbouring Swaziland, Mozambique and Tanzania that facilitated \nthe revival of the underground in South Africa. The other two are of value in analysing the longer history of the \nANC’s armed struggle: firstly, the article describes Military Combat Work, the training regime offered to \nUmkhonto we Sizwe cadres in the Soviet Union, and which formed the template that was to guide the prosecution \nof the armed struggle in future years. The second involves backdating to the pre-Soweto uprising period, many of \nthe challenges facing the armed struggle that historians have hitherto characterized as being a post-June 1976 \nphenomenon. This article describes the Challenges the ANC in exile faced hosting the hundreds of cadres that \njoined its ranks after recruiting work within South Africa began in the early to mid-1970s
Ethnology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · Tanzania · Work (physics · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Engineering · History · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |