Sam Longford

Sam Longford is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History, UWC, and coordinator of the Remaking Societies Remaking Persons (RSRP) Forum. His PhD dissertation, “The Untimely Deaths of Chris Hani: Discipline, Spectrality, and the Haunting Possibility of Return”, was grounded by a sustained engagement with public history, anti-apartheid struggle historiography, and different philosophies of history and of social change.

Teaching Tools by Sam Longford

Linear Teaching tool

Dawn: sites of struggle, contested historical narratives and the making of the disciplined cadre

Presented by

Sam Longford

24 April 2022

This teaching tool focuses on Dawn, the official organ of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or ‘Spear of the Nation’, which was the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). Founded after the banning of organisations associated with the Congress Alliance and the ‘turn to armed struggle’ in […]

Series: Revolutionary Papers Teaching Tools

Journals presented by Sam Longford

▴ Dawn: Journal of Umkhonto wa Sizwe, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1986.

Dawn: Journal of Umkhonto wa Sizwe

In the wake of uMkhonto we Sizwe’s (MK) ‘Mkatashinga Mutiny’ in Angola (1983-1984) and the Congress Alliance’s Kabwe Conference (1985), the ANC’s Department of Political Education (DPE), expressed a need to provide sustained and substantive political education for MK cadres based in Angola. According to the DPE, the reasons for the mutiny – three separate […]

Year

1980

Languages

English

Continents

Africa

Geographies

South Africa

Themes

Anti-apartheid Anticolonialism Antiracism Decolonisation