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Jabulani Nobleman “Mzala” Nxumalo: A Legacy Unfulfilled

Jabulani Nobleman “Mzala” Nxumalo: A Legacy Unfulfilled

Mandla J. Radebe
A critical political biography recovering Mzala Nxumalo as a Marxist-Leninist thinker, tracing liberation struggle, exile, anti-imperialism, and unfinished revolution in post-apartheid South Africa.

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Introduction: A revolutionary life cut short

PART I: Forging the revolutionary pen.

PART II: Mzala Nxumalo and the people’s war

PART IV: Education and culture as pillars of revolutionary transformation

PART V: Mzala and the international balance of forces in the struggle for socialism

PART VI: The battle of ideas in defence of the NDR

PART VII: AIDS, and the struggle against imperial misinformation

Conclusion: The lost prince and the unfinished revolution

Voices of Liberation: Jabulani Nobleman “Mzala” Nxumalo is a comprehensive intellectual and political recovery of one of South Africa’s most formidable yet under-examined revolutionary thinkers. Edited and introduced by Mandla J. Radebe, the manuscript brings together Mzala Nxumalo’s early and mature writings alongside a richly contextualized biographical narrative that traces his development from rural KwaZulu-Natal to the center of global anti-imperialist struggle. The book situates Mzala within the 1976 generation, exile politics, the ANC-SACP alliance, and the theory and practice of people’s war, revealing him as both a disciplined Marxist-Leninist cadre and a rigorous public intellectual. Through close engagement with his interventions on nationalism, ethnicity, armed struggle, imperialism, and collaborationist politics, the manuscript demonstrates the enduring relevance of Mzala’s thought to contemporary South Africa’s unresolved national and class contradictions. More than a historical archive, the book is a theoretical intervention that restores Mzala’s method, clarity, and revolutionary seriousness to current debates on liberation and socialism

Mandla J. Radebe is a strategic communication scholar and the founding Director of the Centre for Data and Digital Communications at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an award-winning author of Mzala Nxumalo’s biography, The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman ‘Mzala’ Nxumalo 1955-1991 (Jacana Media). His other books include Constructing Hegemony: The South African Commercial Media and the (Mis)Representation of Nationalisation (UKZN Press/Routledge), and Apartheid Did Not Die: South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution (Inkani Books). Radebe has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, with his research focusing on how communication systems intersect with power, capitalism, and state formation.

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