The Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… Beginnings The Trotskyist groups in South Africa were born not in blood, but in confusion. They did not emerge in … thesis and then in The Spark, ascribed the war threat to finance capital and condemned both the west and Germany for … in its effects on the Trotskyist movement. The Prime Minister, General Hertzog, had been pressing since 1926 for …