A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)

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dc.contributor.advisorSaunders, Christopher Cen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorHarries, Patricken_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCollins, Brian Fen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-14T13:01:59Z
dc.date.available2016-09-14T13:01:59Z
dc.date.issued1996en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 215-230.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractCOSAWR consisted mainly of white male South Africans who avoided whites-only conscription into the South African Defence Force (SADF) by going into exile in Britain and the Netherlands. COSAWR was founded in 1978 with the assistance of the African National Congress (ANC) and the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Its goals were to advance war resistance both within South Africa and overseas, research the militarisation of Southern Africa, influence the ANC's opinion on war resistance, bring Western European peace groups and soldiers' unions into the fold of the antiapartheid movement, and involve white South Africans in the anti-apartheid movement and the ANC. The thesis puts COSAWR in the context of South African history in the 1970s and 1980s. The dissertation evaluates COSAWR in relation to the personal and political dynamics of the individual members who shaped the organisation, the development of the South African war resistance movement, its association with the ANC and the broad international anti-apartheid movement, its antagonistic relationship with the South African government and the militarisation of South Africa. The discourse explores the exiles' personal and political motives for avoiding military service. These reasons helped to determine the extent to which the organisation was successful. It is a general history, because the security consciousness of interviewees and the lack of access to certain COSAWR and South African government records inhibited the writing of a detailed study.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationCollins, B. F. (1996). <i>A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21779en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationCollins, Brian F. <i>"A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21779en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCollins, B. 1996. A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990). University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Collins, Brian F AB - COSAWR consisted mainly of white male South Africans who avoided whites-only conscription into the South African Defence Force (SADF) by going into exile in Britain and the Netherlands. COSAWR was founded in 1978 with the assistance of the African National Congress (ANC) and the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Its goals were to advance war resistance both within South Africa and overseas, research the militarisation of Southern Africa, influence the ANC's opinion on war resistance, bring Western European peace groups and soldiers' unions into the fold of the antiapartheid movement, and involve white South Africans in the anti-apartheid movement and the ANC. The thesis puts COSAWR in the context of South African history in the 1970s and 1980s. The dissertation evaluates COSAWR in relation to the personal and political dynamics of the individual members who shaped the organisation, the development of the South African war resistance movement, its association with the ANC and the broad international anti-apartheid movement, its antagonistic relationship with the South African government and the militarisation of South Africa. The discourse explores the exiles' personal and political motives for avoiding military service. These reasons helped to determine the extent to which the organisation was successful. It is a general history, because the security consciousness of interviewees and the lack of access to certain COSAWR and South African government records inhibited the writing of a detailed study. DA - 1996 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1996 T1 - A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990) TI - A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990) UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21779 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/21779
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationCollins BF. A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990). [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1996 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21779en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHistorical Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleA history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)en_ZA
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