The National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject

Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the MA degree in History at the the University of Cape Town by Andries du Toit. The dissertation gives an account of the History of the National Committee of the for Liberation (NCL), an anti-apartheid sabotage organisation that existed between 1960 and 1964. The study is aimed both at narrating its growth and development in the context of South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, and explaining its strategic political choices. In particular, the reason for its isolation from the broader struggle agaist apartheid and its inability to transcend this isolation are investigated.