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A genealogy of the Springbok Legion: Communism, world war and the making of South African non-racialism (1941-1955)
Thesis (PhD (History))--University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/108201 A genealogy of the Springbok Legion: Communism, world war and the making of South African non-racialism (1941-1955) Macqueen, Ian jaunico.wonderlus@gmail.com Van der Walt, Jaunico UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Progressive white politics Anti-apartheid Springbok Legion Communist Party of South Africa Thesis (PhD (History))--University of Pretoria, 2025. This thesis positions the Springbok Legion as a space in the 1940s and 1950s that fostered the amalgamation, renegotiation and reconstitution of colonial conceptions of whiteness, belonging and duty, informed by a wartime South African economy and a turbulent post-war political milieu. Conventional histories reduce the organisational and ideological character of the Legion to either a veteran’s welfare organisation or a front of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). This thesis shows how the Legion was a space where white liberals and radical activists could embody complimentary and contradictory values in pursuit of the principles of constitutional democracy and nonracialism. The thesis argues that the Springbok Legion incubated social values and identities that transcended the spatial confines of the organisation and proliferated into the larger anti-apartheid struggle. The Legion is posited as a crucial component of the extraparliamentary political environment of the 1950s where nonracialism, as opposed to narrow Africanism, was the most viable political strategy for the Congress Alliance to pursue. Historical and Heritage Studies PhD (History) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities SDG-10: Reduces inequalities 2026-02-13T06:28:05Z 2026-02-13T06:28:05Z 2025-05-22 2025-09-11 Thesis * A2026 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/108201 10.25403/UPresearchdata.31323295 en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Progressive white politics Anti-apartheid Springbok Legion Communist Party of South Africa A genealogy of the Springbok Legion: Communism, world war and the making of South African non-racialism (1941-1955) |
| title | A genealogy of the Springbok Legion: Communism, world war and the making of South African non-racialism (1941-1955) |
| title_full | A genealogy of the Springbok Legion: Communism, world war and the making of South African non-racialism (1941-1955) |
| title_fullStr | A genealogy of the Springbok Legion: Communism, world war and the making of South African non-racialism (1941-1955) |
| title_full_unstemmed | A genealogy of the Springbok Legion: Communism, world war and the making of South African non-racialism (1941-1955) |
| title_short | A genealogy of the Springbok Legion: Communism, world war and the making of South African non-racialism (1941-1955) |
| title_sort | genealogy of the springbok legion communism world war and the making of south african non racialism 1941 1955 |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Progressive white politics Anti-apartheid Springbok Legion Communist Party of South Africa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/108201 |