D3 :: Chapter 10: An honour bestowed upon me

Call Number: D3
Title: Chapter 10: An honour bestowed upon me
Dates: 11 May 1961
Scope Content: Chapter content:
Sisulu's wedding anniversary; Mbeki secretary-general of the African Students Association (ASA), passes his A-levels; 11 May 1961: Verwoerd government declared South Africa a republic, Umkhonto we Sizwe approved; 16 December 1961: explosions in Johannesburg and PE; 4 January 1962: Mbeki published his first political piece in New Age; Mbeki recruited into the SACP in 1961/2 by Duma Nokwe, given classes in Marxism by Bram Fischer; the ANC becomes more reliant on the SACP, the SACP drafts The Road to South African Freedom; attempt to reconcile its class-based analysis with African nationalism.