Foundersthe Origins of the Anc and the Struggle for Democracy (Revised Edition 2023)

The African National Congress Was Founded a Hundred Years Ago, in January 1912. but the Roots of the Anc Run Even Deeper in South African History. in Fact, the Anc's Founding Was the Culmination of More Than Sixty Years of Organisation by a New Class of African Modernisers. These Were Men and Women Educated in Local Mission Schools and in Universities Abroad, Who Sought a Place for Themselves in the New South Africa Emerging at the End of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries. Much of Their History is Unknown but Their Story Has Been Painstakingly Recovered by Andre Odendaal, Who Has Pieced Together the Astonishing Achievements of This New Class and the Broad Vision They Proposed for a New Society. Today, Only a Few of the Founders of the Anc Are Still Well Known - John Dube and Sol Plaatje Among Them. but They Were Only the Tip of the Proverbial Iceberg, For, Across the Length and Breadth of the Country, Educated Africans Were Emerging in Numbers and Claiming The