Isaac Bangani Tabata

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Isaac Bangani Tabata (* 1909 near Queenstown , † October 13, 1990 in Harare ; IB Tabata for short ) was a South African politician. He belonged to the Workers Party of South Africa and was president and leading theoretician of the Non European Unity Movement (NEUM, German: " Unity Movement of Non-Europeans").

Life

Tabata attended Lovedale Secondary School . He then studied at Fort Hare University , but dropped out in 1931 and moved to Cape Town , where he works as a truck driver. He joined the union, where he was elected to the board, and became a member of the Cape African Voters' Association (about: "Association of African Voters of the Cape Province"). He was a member of the Trotskyist Lenin Club, from which, under his leadership, the Workers Party of South Africa (WPSA, roughly: "Workers' Party of South Africa") emerged. He was also elected to the board of directors of the All African Convention (AAC), founded in 1935, and in 1943, along with other WPSA members, he was the founder of the anti-CAD group , which opposed the activities of the government agency's Colored Affairs Department . In the same year he was a co-founder of NEUM. He traveled through South Africa, especially the Transkei , and distributed his writings against the government-imposed restrictions on animal husbandry for black farmers.

Tabata rejected the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa affiliated with the ANC . Instead, he preferred a liberation movement based on small farmers and long-term political education measures. Nevertheless, Tabata met the ANC politician Nelson Mandela in 1948 , on whom his comments on the resistance made a great impression.

When the ANC started the Defiance Campaign in 1952 , Tabata published his polemic Boycott as a Weapon of Struggle (for example: "Boycott as a weapon in combat"). In 1956 Tabata was banned for five years and was only allowed to stay in Cape Town. In the meantime he wrote the book Education for Barbarism (about: "Education for barbarism"), with which he attacked the system of educational paths separated by skin color, specifically the Bantu Education Act .

In 1961 he was co-founder and president of the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA, for example: "Democratic Union of the African People in Southern Africa"), which should be associated with AAC and NEUM. In May 1963 he and his wife fled into exile via Swaziland to Zambia . He also lived in Zimbabwe and Tanzania and made lecture tours to the USA from there in 1965 and 1970. Even in exile he remained President of APDUSA and NEUM, which had been called the Unity Movement of South Africa (UMSA) since 1964 . In 1974 he published a collection of essays, Imperialist Conspiracy in Africa (for example: "Imperialist Conspiracy in Africa").

Tabata was married to Jane Gool, who was also active as a Trotskyist, as was her father Goolam Gool . Tabata died in Harare, Zimbabwe and was buried in his hometown of Bailey, north of Queenstown. His grave inscription reads: Here lies a Great Politician, President of the Unity Movement of SA and a Great Man. - "Here lies a great politician, president of the Unity Movement of South Africa and a great man."

Honors

  • In 2005 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Luthuli in gold. The reason was: Exceptional contribution to the founding of organizations which forged unity among the oppressed across race and class boundaries - "Extraordinary contribution to the founding of organizations which enabled the unity of the oppressed across racial and class boundaries"

Works

  • 1946: The Rehabilitation Scheme: A New Fraud.
  • 1950: The All-African Convention: The Awakening of a People.
  • 1952: Boycott as a Weapon of Struggle.
  • 1959: Education for Barbarism.
  • 1974: Imperialist Conspiracy in Africa.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Trotskyists in South Africa at revolutionaryhistory.co.uk ( Memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 27, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d biography at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on May 27, 2012
  3. ^ Review of Anthony Sampson's Mandela biography , accessed May 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Placenames in South Africa , accessed May 27, 2012
  5. ↑ Issac Bangani Tabata 1909–1990 at presidency.gov.za (English), accessed on April 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tabata, Isaac Bangani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tabata, IB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH at Queenstown
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1990
Place of death Harare