Lesotho and the Struggle for Azania

This work is a revised and slightly updated edition of my Doctor of Philosophy degree in History, awarded magna cum laude at Bremen University, Germany, in 1985. Its title was Africanist political movements in Lesotho and Azania (South Africa) 1780-1984: The origins and history  of the Basutoland Congress Party of Lesotho and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. From 1992 to 2012 I wrote other books and university papers in Sesotho and English concentrating on the period 1952-1959 when  the African National Congress split on class lines and was in state of near  civil war. Following Nelson Mandela‘s death in 2013, the South African Communist Party announced that he had been a member of that party‘s central committee since the 1950‘s, an admission that now fully explains  how the SACP was able to take over the ANC in 1955 and drag the liberation movements into the Cold War, thus seriously compromising their cause and arguably delaying freedom, probably by decades. Secondly, when I wrote my thesis in 1984, I could not believe that Ntsu Mokhehle could have been so simple minded to have abandoned the principles and  friendships of a lifetime to become a pathetic dupe of the South African  security services. I have therefore updated my work to include both aspects.