CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Note on Sources and Footnoting

Postscript Ante.

CHAPTER ONE : Old Battle Cries, Borrowed Language

• The Other Casualties of Sharpeville
• The Rise in Influence of the SACP
• The Roots of Strategy
• Evolving Strategy, 1960-63
• Evolving Strategy, 1965-74
• Conclusion

CHAPTER TWO :You Only Win Once ,

• Introduction
• The ANC External Mission Environment in 1974
• Operational Structures after the Morogoro Conference, 1969
• The Domestic and Regional Environment, 1974
• The Re-emergence of an Underground
• Influences on ANC Operational Strategic Policy
• The Organisational Axis at Work
• Conclusion

CHAPTER THREE: Unprepared .

• Introduction
• ANC Operational Strategic Policy after the Soweto Uprising
• The First Combat Actions
• ANC Operational Structures after the Soweto Uprising
• Post-1976 Strategy and Structures at Work
• Another Strategic Impasse
• Conclusion

CHAPTER FOUR: A Turn to the Masses

• Introduction
• Factors stimulating the Strategic Review
• Arguments within an Impasse
• Visit to Vietnam
• The Politico-Military Strategy Commission
• Strategic Implications of the Review
• ANC Operational Structures after the Review
• Conclusion

CHAPTER FIVE: Armed Propaganda and Non-Collaboration

• Introduction
• Internal Reconstruction, January 1978 - August 1979
• Military Operations, November 1978 - March 1980
• IRD and the Strategic Review, September 1979 - March 1980
• The ANC's Trade Union Confusion, 1979-1980
• New Operational Structures, March 1980
• Early Debates in the Mozambique Senior Organ
• Military operational policy after the Strategic Review
• Military Operations, April - December, 1980
• Political reconstruction, April - December, 1980
• Conclusion

CHAPTER SIX: Towards a Broad Front

• Introduction
• The Anti-Republic Campaign
• First Call for a United Front
• The Programme for Area Political Committees
• External Strategic Debates, September 1981 - September 1982
• The ANC and the Emerging Trade Unions, 1981-82
• A United Front is Formed
• Conclusion

CHAPTER SEVEN: Planning for People's War

• Introduction
• An ANC Front
• New Operational Structures - again
• Debating the UDF
• The UDF Starts Campaigning
• `Planning for People's War'
• The External Environment
• Armed Activity, 1983
• Grenade Squads and a Spirit of Rebellion
• Armed Struggle and Some Unjustified Assumptions
• Conclusion

CHAPTER EIGHT: Leading from Behind

• Introduction
• Uprisings
• The White Response
• Insurrection Revisited
• The Revolutionary Moment
• Problems in the Forward Areas
• ANC Conference
• Conclusion

CHAPTER NINE: Tactics of Talks, Tactics of Confrontation .

• Introduction
• Operation Zikomo
• Death of the `Grenade Squads'
• The Tactics of Talks
• Unequal Combat
• International Dimensions and White Discord
• The Formation of Cosatu
• The Commonwealth Initiative and Negotiations - 1
• `Operation Butterfly'
• Destabilising the Border Areas
• The Commonwealth Initiative and Negotiations - 2
• `From Ungovernability to People's Power'
• The Insurrectionary Schema, 1986
• The National Security Management System
• Armed Activity
• Strategic Hiatus and the Genesis of `Operation Vula

CONCLUSION

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Interviews conducted by author and appearing in appendices
• Interviews: Volume 1
• Interviews: Volume 2
• Interviews: Volume 3
• Interviews: Volume 4
• Documents and other interviews appearing in appendices
  • Documents: Volume A
  • Documents: Volume B
• Books and long documents
• Articles and reports
• Newspapers and periodicals
• Journals
• Regular publications by organisations
• Theses

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