Ordinary Springboks: white servicemen and social justice in South Africa, 1939 - 1961
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Ordinary Springboks
White Servicemen and Social Justice in South Africa,
1939-1961
NEIL ROOS
University of Pretoria, South Africa
ASHGATE
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
List of Abbreviations xv
1 Bullsheet and Brass Tacks 1
Ordinary Springboks and South African Historians 1
Radical History and Accounts of Whiteness in South Africa 2
The White Problem in American Studies and the Legacy of
WEB Du Bois 4
Methodological Notes 8
The Shape of Things to Come 10
2 White Men and Racial Boundaries in Pre-War South Africa 13
The White Poor and the Politics of Race 13
White Poverty, Poor Whites and the South African State 14
Traditions of White Protest and the Shape of the Racial
Order 18
The Great Depression, Party Politics and a New Contract of
Whiteness 19
3 Big Words and Little Stories 23
The End of Peace 23
The War Vote and Mobilization 24
White Men to War 27
The Rhetoric of War and the Politics of Volunteering: Big
Words and Little Stories 37
4 White Servicemen and the Army Education Scheme 45
Hurry Up and Wait 45
Interrogating Social Justice 46
White Liberals, the Specter of Political 'Extremism' and the
Possibilities of Education 48
TheAES: Education for Enlightened (White) Citizenship 49
vi Ordinary Springboks
Liberals and the AES Curriculum 51
The Contradictions of 'South Africanism' in Segregated Society 54
Leisure, Sex and the Social Control of White Male Volunteers 56
Springbok Sport 60
White Servicemen, the AES and the Limits of South Africanism
in Segregated Society 62
5 Trade Union of the Ranks: The Springbok Legion and Social
Justice 65
Part-time Politicians and Popular Debates about Social Justice 65
The Historiography of the Springbok Legion 67
- An Organization for the 'Modern South African Soldier' 70
White Communists and the Springbok Legion 72
A Trade Union of the Ranks 76
The Legion and the Unity of White Soldiers and Workers 81
Winning White Soldiers' Hearts and Minds 87
The Springbok Legion: Quo Vadis? 93
6 The Helwan Riot and the Beginning of White Ex-Servicemen's
Disillusionment 95
Bring the Boys Home! Repatriation and the Helwan Riot 95
The Beginning of (Ex-) Service Disillusionment 101
7 'Jannie Promises,' White Veterans and the Struggle for Social Justice 103
The Stresses of Civilian Life 103
White Men Back to Work and the Struggle for 'Social Justice' 104
Demobilization: What Homes for White Heroes? 106
Social (Injustice: Disappointment and the Demands of
White Veterans 113
The 1948 General Election 118
White Veterans in the Apartheid State 124
8 The Rise and Fall of the Torch 129
The War Veterans' Torch Commando 129
The NP, the Coloured Vote and the Concerns of Civil Society 131
The Origins of the Torch 134
The Emergence of the Torch as a Mass Movement 139
Crises of Settling Down and the Appeal of the Torch Commando 141
The Steel Commando, the Cape Town Riot and the
Subversion of the Torch 144
The Natal Stand and the Little Tradition of Regional Secessionism 152
A Retreat from 'Politics?' 156
Contents vii
9 Beyond the Politics of Whiteness: The Springbok Legion, the
Congress of Democrats and the Movements for National
Liberation 159
From Class Struggle to National Liberation 159
NP Rule and Political Uncertainty 161
Repression and Rapprochement 164
Radical Whites and the South African Congress of Democrats 170
Rusty Bernstein and the Freedom Charter 172
Military 'Experts' and the Move Toward Violence 173
The Political Legacy of Radical Legionnaires 176
10 The End of Ex-Service Politics? The MOTH and the Study of
Racist Culture 179
Mutual Help Rooted in Frontline Service 181
The Craze for Building 186
True Comradeship and Sound Memory 188
Conclusion: White Veterans and Whiteness in South Africa 195
Contracts of Whiteness 195
Roediger, Goldberg and the Study of Whiteness 198
Radical White Veterans and the Hegemony of Whiteness 200
'For Seeing the Graves at Alamein, You Can Never be the
Same Again' 201
Selected Bibliography 203
Index 225 |
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