REAPPRAISING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF JAN C. SMUTS

.416pp., paperback, UJ Press, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN: 9781776489671

Contributions include:

"Introduction: The enigmatic Smuts" by David Boucher and Bongani Ngqulunga

"Jan Smuts and the World Outer-Revolution, 1917-1923" by Jonathan Hyslop

"Jan Smuts and his 'Sphinx' Problem" by Saul Dubow

"Smuts and the Politics of Segregation: The prosecution of pass laws under the United Party government" by Gary Baines

"Jan Smuts, Alfred Xuma, and the Struggle for Racial Equality in South Africa, 1939-1948" by Bongani Ngqulunga

"Smuts: Afraid of greatness" by Roger Southall

"Smuts, Holism and Political Philosophy" by William Sweet.

David Boucher is Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, and Professor of Political Philosophy and International al Relations, Cardiff University. His is editor of Language, Culture and Decolonisation" and co-editor (with Ayesha Omar) of Decolonisation: Revolution and Evolution.

Bongani Ngqulunga is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Director the African Biographies Research and Writing Project at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of A Man Who Founded the ANC: A biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme.