The Red sons of Africa: One of the world's oldest Communist Parties

01 August 2021 - 00:00 By Jonathan Ancer

Professor Tom Lodge began working on a history of South African communists when the SACP was a relative youngster; at 63 years old it would have just managed to scrape into phase two of the country's vaccination rollout plan...

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