domination imperial They took place in the aftermath of the development of revolutionary Pan-Africanism, in countries where there stunted Was development and hence a weak working class unable to take the leadership Limits economic theory The course of the revolutions in Africa however were limited by their very success. Because they didn't need to produce a leadership with a class culture more enduring This combines with one of the longest surviving national liberation movements with back as far as 1912. All these factors indicate that the South African toiling masses have to not only achieve class politicised in terms of its independent consciousicss: not only become political organisation, but also must elaborate a revolutionary theory and culture which must be radically different from that or une previous African revolutions. The experiences of the masses in South Africa is so much more generalised than that of the African masses of Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, etc. Inal there is an historical break between the previous African revolutions and the African revolution.
This indicates why the development of the doctrine of non-racialism has taken place. Non-racialism is first of all not a liberal philosophy designThe hegemony of the ruling class in Southern Africa is so precarious that it can be maintained Walle working guaranteeing white working class at the expense of a disenfranchised and exploited black working class. precarious in recent of the union movement that the apartheid government has had tr establish its hegemony over the coloured and constitutional give these populations a semblance of political representation, again at the South expense of the majority population.
The failure of this strategy has not only served to emphasise the embattled position of the government, also testifies to the strength of the independent trade unions in proving
Socialist Action 18 April 1986