E5 :: Chapter 16: Old left, new left: Thabo and Moeletsi

Call Number: E5
Title: Chapter 16: Old left, new left: Thabo and Moeletsi
Dates: 18 May 1966
Scope Content: Chapter content:
Moeletsi known for his attacks on SA's Zimbabwe policy, the African Renaissance and BEE; Moeletsi new left, Mbeki old left; Moeletsi part of new left rebellions of the 1960s, a political rebel, declared himself a Maoist, later an internationalist, a Third World Revolutionary, an embarrassment to the Sussex set; the Trotskyist Alan Woods arrive at Sussex; 18 May 1966 24 hour vigil held against Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence in Rhodesia; comparison of Mbeki's political style to that of Essop Pahad; Mbeki's bifurcated experience of the 1960s, unlike their peers Mbeki and comrades were part of an armed struggle, an anti-colonial movement; Mbeki benefactor of 1960s and the new left