ABSTRACT
The policy of non-collaboration and its offspring, the policy of anti-collaboration, have achieved an almost self-evident status among political activists in South Africa today. According to the author of one of the few systematic studies of its own history by the years, was the role of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM), it was the experience of the European anti-fascist resistance, the struggle against the imposition of Nazi rule that can be seen as the fount of the policy of non-collaboration in South Africa. The chapter summarises some of the more immediate features of the political exertions of the Anti-CAD and NEUM in the Western Cape. The vast majority of literate people in the Western Cape became politicised. The debilitating barriers of the slave mentality were gradually broken down as a new generation of young people left the small number of high schools in the Western Cape.
