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Spear of the Nation : South Africa's Liberation Army, 1960s-1990s.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ohio Short Histories of Africa SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (86 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444436
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spear of the Nation: Umkhonto WeSizweDDC classification:
  • 322.420968
LOC classification:
  • DT1796.U45 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The turn to armed struggle, 1960-3 -- 3. The Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns, 1967-8 -- 4. Struggling to get home, 1969-84 -- 5. Reaping the whirlwind, 1984-9 -- 6. The end of armed struggle -- 7. A sober assessment of MK -- Sources and further reading -- Index.
Summary: Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century--but it never got to "march triumphant into Pretoria." MK--as it was known--was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government.
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The turn to armed struggle, 1960-3 -- 3. The Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns, 1967-8 -- 4. Struggling to get home, 1969-84 -- 5. Reaping the whirlwind, 1984-9 -- 6. The end of armed struggle -- 7. A sober assessment of MK -- Sources and further reading -- Index.

Umkhonto weSizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century--but it never got to "march triumphant into Pretoria." MK--as it was known--was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government.

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