The Views of Mahlathi by A.W.G. Champion [New]

ISBN: 9780869803127 / 0869803123 - The Views of Mahlathi by A.W.G. Champion, edited by M.W. Swanson, translated by E.R. Dahle and Trevor Cope. Published by UKZN Press, 1983. Hardcover. New. 236 pp.

Translated from the Zulu, this book is a personal testimony of the Zulu politician and early trade unionist, A.W.G. Champion.

It is a contribution to contemporary Africana and a source for the discovery of African views on a variety of current issues. Known as Mahlathi Amnyama - 'The Dark Forest' - Champion was a prominent, outspoken and controversial public figure in Natal and Zululand from the 1920s to the 1970s. An accomplished pamphleteer and publicist, he concluded his extraordinary career by writing a series of columns for the Zulu newspaper, Ilanga, in which he entertained and outraged his readers for ten years, from 1964 to 1974, airing his opinions forcefully on current issues of African life in town and countryside and recounting the history of his times.

In 1969 the well-known Zulu author and former editor of Ilanga, R.R.R. Dhlomo, selected fifty of these articles which he intended to publish as a book in the original Zulu. To these he added a sketch of Champion's early career in the 1920s and '30s as a leader with Clements Kadalie of the first mass African labour movement, the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union. Frustrated in this project, Champion later gave the manuscript to his biographer, Maynard Swanson, who has edited the present volume.

The first KCAL Translation, M.M. Fuze's The Black People was well received. Quite different in tone and content, this new volume in the series should prove equally popular.

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