- Roux , E. 1944 . S.P. Bunting: A Political Biography Cape Town (E. Roux, Time Longer Than Rope: The Black Man's Struggle for Freedom in South Africa (London, 1978);E. Roux, Rebel Pity: The Life of Eddy Roux (London, 1970);H.J. and R.E. Simons, Class and Colour in South Africa, 1850–1950 (London, 1983);B. Bunting, Moses Kotane: South African Revolutionary (London, 1975);and Brian Bunting's editorial contributions to B. Bunting, ed., Letters to Rebecca: South African Communist Leader S.P. Bunting to his Wife 1917–1934 (Bellville, 1996) and the latest edition of Roux's S.P. Bunting: A Political Biography (Bellville, 1993). An example of a recent publication which accepts such oral testimony without question is L. Switzer, ed., South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880–1966 (Cambridge, 1997). Stephen Clingman's biography of Bram Kruger is another: S. Clingman, Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary (Cape Town, 1998). Both are discussed later in this article
- Roux . 1997 . S.P. Bunting 74ff. This view has been somewhat modified in by S.P. Bunting's son, Brian Bunting, who has now permitted the publication of letters which clearly show the racism of Andrews and other early communists. See, for example, Bunting, Letters to Rebecca, 48–51, 54–56, 59–60
- Roux . S.P. Bunting, 105.
- Ibid., 110–12;Roux, Time Longer Than Rope, 215
- Roux . Time Longer Than Rope 222
- Roux . S.P. Bunting 113–130. All this is from Roux. Jack Simons and Brian Bunting were not in favour of publicizing the role of the Comintern in these events. See below
- Bunting . Moses Kotane 1
- 1934 . Comintern Archives, Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Recent History, Moscow (hereafter CA), 495/64/133, unsigned letter written in Johannesburg, 31 July;Roux, S.P. Bunting, 157–8
- Roux . S.P. Bunting 157–8
- Ibid, 156
- Ibid, 29
- Drew , A. 1996 . South Africa's Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, vol. 1: 1907–1950 124 Cape Town
- Roux . S.P. Bunting 174;see J. and R. Simons, Class adn Colour, 442, 452 for their view that Roux was one of those who insulted and expelled Bunting
- Roux . S.P. Bunting 50–3, 161–2;Bunting, Letters to Rebecca, 8
- Roux . S.P. Bunting 176
- Bunting . Moses Kotane 291, note 49
- Roux . S.P. Bunting 19
- The title of R.K. Cope's book on W.H. Andrews was Comrade Bill: The Life and Times of W.H. Andrews, Workers' Leader (Cape Town, n.d.)
- 1936 . CA, 495/14/155(29), documents about the factional struggle in the Communist Party of South Africa, 19 Mar. Roux was secretary for a short period in the 1930s
- Bunting . Letters to Rebecca 78, note by Brian Bunting;CA, 495/1/355, 1938 Organizational Position of the Party
- Roux . Rebel Pity 151 ff. See below
- Roux . S.P. Bunting 142, 156ff, 174ff
- 1943 . University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (hereafter UW), Bunting Papers, A494, Letter from Rebecca Bunting to Eddie Roux, 9 Aug.
- CA, 495/14/355, 1938 Organizational Position of the Party;CA, 495/14/352, 13/149, The Inner Party Situation in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1937;CA, 495/14/352, On the Situation of the Communist Party of South Africa, 7 Nov. 1937;CA, 495/14/352, On the Situation of the Communist Party of South Africa, 2 Dec. 1937;CA, 495/14/155(29) Draft Resolution, 12 Feb. 1936. For South African historians who have relied on Roux, see for example T.R.H Davenport, South Africa: A Modern History (London, 1991), 599;Reader's Digest, Illustrated History of South Africa (Cape Town, 1995), 557; B.J. Liebenberg and S.B. Spies, eds, South Africa in the 20th Century (Pretoria, 1994), 549, 554; A. Drew, ed, South Africa's Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, vol. 1, 1907–1950 (Cape Town, 1996), 19; W. Beinart and S. Dubow, eds, Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa (London, 1995), 174, note 97
- Simons , J. and Simons , R. Class and Colour 405. Brian Bunting, for example, says that at an anti-pass rally Xuma called upon the NRC to resign, when in fact Xuma only called upon them to adjourn their next meeting, which is very different: Bunting, Moses Kotane, 32
- CA, 495/14/129(122), Report by Josie Mpama;CA, 495/14/141(15), Discussion, 23 Nov. 1935;CA, 495/14/352, 13/149, The Inner Party Situation in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1937;CA, 495/14/355, 1938 Organizational Position of the Party
- UW, South African Institute of Race Relations Papers (hereafter SAIRR), AD 21182, Nkululeko, vol. 1, no. 9
- Ibid.;CA, 495/14/350, Report of a Meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPSA held in Johannesburg on Friday, 11 June 1937;CA, 532/4/44/80, The Higher Party Organization
- 1931 . CA, 495/64/108, Report of the Second Conference of Party Members dissatisfied with the Party position, Report of a meeting held in the Albert Hall, Johannesburg, 27 Dec. ibid., Introduction of the Report (re the Conference of the 27 Dec. 1931). Nkosi apparently knocked his head against a wall. The circumstances of this are not clear but the police appear not to have been involved in the incident
- Lewis , J. 1984 . Industrialization and Trade Union Organization in South Africa, 1924–1955 62 – 3 . Cambridge
- Simons , J. and Simons , R. Class and Colour 450–1
- Karis , T. and Carter , G. 1977 . From Protest to Challenge, vol. 4: Political Profiles 1882–1964 134 Stanford
- 1993 . The new edition of has had footnotes added to it by Brian Bunting, mainly explanatory notes
- Roux . Time Longer Than Rope 260–3;Roux, S.P. Bunting, 166;Roux, Rebel Pity, 109–26
- Roux . Rebel Pity 119
- 1934 . CA, 495/64/133, Report to the Comintern, 30 Sep.
- Simons , J. and Simons , R. Class and Colour 453
- Ibid., 460
- 1931 . CA 495/64/108, Report of the Second Conference, 27 Dec. ibid, Introductory of the Report
- Switzer . South Africa's Alternative Press 266
- Ibid, 214, 301, note 18
- Clingman . Bram Fischer 466;and many other Party stalwarts, ibid., 482–3
- Lodge , T. 1987 . ‘Class, Conflict, Communal Struggle and Patriotic Unity: The Communist Party of South Africa during the Second World War’ (Paper, African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 Oct., 7, 10, note 87
- Bradford , H. 1988 . A Taste of Freedom: The ICU in Rural South Africa, 1924–1930 259 Johannesburg See, for example
- Basner , H. 1993 . Am I an African? The Political Memoirs of H.M.M. Basner Johannesburg (76ff
- 1929 . CA, 495/64/85, Albert Nzula to the Comintern, 11 Dec.
- Padmore , G. 1956 . Pan-Africanism or Communism? 289 – 90 . London (The last report on the CPSA sent to Moscow by the Soviet Consulate appears to be: CA, 495/17/22/55, P. Atroshenko, Former Consul of the USSR in South Africa, 22 Sep. 1949, to the Central Committee of the All Union Bolshevik, Foreign Commission
- 1914 . Public Record Office, London, Dominion Office Papers, GG, 1542, 50/384, Petition to the High Commissioner of South Africa, Viscount Gladstone, from the Orange Free State Native and Coloured Women, 20 Feb.
- Boydell , T. 1948 . ‘My Luck Was In’, with More Spotlights on General Smuts 53 Cape Town
- Bunting . Letters to Rebecca 10–11, 12
- CA, 495/14/159(151), ‘The Labour Movement of South Africa’, by Sydney Bunting;ibid., ‘The Rand Revolt’, by Sydney Bunting (1922);Bunting, Letters to Rebecca, 39
- Cronin , J. and Callinicos , A. 1922 . Between Apartheid and Capitalism 77 London
- van Dunn , P. Class Struggle, Race Emancipation or National Liberation? The Communist Movement in South Africa and the Comintern 1919–1943”, 8, 12; L. Callinicos, Between Apartheid and Capitalism (London, 1992), 77
- 1943 . See, for example, UW, Bunting Papers, A494, Rebecca Bunting to Eddie Roux, 9 Aug. She wants Roux to leave out those aspects which give the impression that the Comintern was involved in the affairs of the CPSA
- McDermott , K. and Agnew , J. 1996 . The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin London (6, 8, 24–8
- 1936 . See, for example, CA, 495/14/350, Report of a Meeting of the Commission on the South African Question, Mar. ibid., Report of a Meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPSA held in Johannesburg on Friday, 11 June 1937
- See, for example, Switzer, South Africa's Alternative Press, 302, notes 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34 and 36
- Bunche , R. An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph Bunche, 28 September 1937–1 January 1938 See, for example, edited by R. Edgar (Johannesburg, 1992), 356, note 62;330, notes 60 and 61;326–7, note 39
- 1912 . House of Assembly Debates, 1 Mar., cols. 1100–1102;ibid, 6 Mar. 1913, col. 669;ibid, 15 May 1913, col. 2548;ibid., 8 Apr. 1913, col. 1408
- Basner . Am I an African? 51;McDermott and Agnew, The Comintern, 73, 83
- Bunche , R. An African American in South Africa 330, notes 60 and 61. In note 60, the Native Republic slogan was said to have been aimed at ‘making possible alliances between reformist and black nationalist organizations’. This was not the case and it is contradicted in the very next note, no. 61, where it is stated that the League of African Rights was disbanded because it adopted a reformist stance
- Roux . S.P. Bunting 19
- 1929 . CA, 495/64/85, CA, 495/64/133, Unsigned letter written in Johannesburg, 31 July 1934;CA, 495/14/1511, Report on … Red Aid South Africa … Closed meeting of the Secretariat Ecira, 31 Dec. 1935
- Centre , Mayibuye . 1935 . University of the Western Cape (hereafter MC), Lionel Forman Papers, Comments on Forman's History of the CPSA by Brian Bunting. Blacks were of secondary importance after the policy changes of 1934–1935. See, for example, CA, 495/14/1511, Report …, 31 Dec.: CA, 495/14/154(8), 2 Mar. 1936;CA, 495/14/355/70-162, Statement of Comrade Basner, 5 Nov. 1937;CA, 495/14/352/13/149, Draft, 29 Aug. 1937, Proposals of the English Comrades on the South African Question
- MC, Lionel Forman Papers, Comments on Forman's History of the CPSA by Brian Bunting
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Scholem , G. and Weiner , H. 1969 . 9 1/2 Mystics: The Kabbalah Today 52 New York
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