The Road from Sharpeville, by Bernard Sachs
Reviewed by T.B.
1961Labour ReviewT.B. Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: words can be misread, and the end of one piece can run into the next. For anything you quote, read the scan.
[p026] Road from Sharpeville. By Published by Dennis _the emergence of African political consciousness, virtually without refe- rence to the independent efforts at political programmes and organiza- tions; or to the debates, splits and re-formations, which constitute the stuff of the political struggles in South Africa. On this, Bernard Sachs’ gaze barely falls; tremulously he looks backward, at the 1922 Rand strike in which he himself partici- pated, at the organization of the Garment Workers’ Union by his brother, Solly Sachs. How sad it is to see a one-time fighter floundering; and how dis- tressing that his muddy thinking has been exposed to print. T.B. Double-dealer