ABSTRACT Over the course of the 1920s, Clements Kadalie (c.1895–1951) espoused a radical new form of black masculinity that rejected white oversight, disparaged the ‘hypocrisies’ of colonial ‘civilisation’, and spurned the established patriarchal practices of other black organisations. As ‘bad boy’ trade unionists, Kadalie and other leaders of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa were condemned for their bad language and ‘debaucheries’, but many of these so-called ‘faults’ were also key to their success as populist leaders of the first mass-member black organisation in southern African history. After Kadalie resigned as general secretary of the ICU, however, he came to see many of these traits as failings and wrote them out of his autobiography, My Life and the ICU, in an attempt to portray a ‘worthy story’. Kadalie’s early antagonistic relationship with black respectability had fundamentally shifted by the 1940s, as part of his ‘revival’ as a married, temperate black councillor. Complete with disagreements, divorce, alcoholism, affairs and illegitimate children, this article addresses the awkward place of gender and family in Kadalie’s life, and foregrounds aspects of his biography which My Life and the ICU deliberately circumvents. While his first marriage to Molly Davidson ended following numerous affairs, his second wife Eva Moorhead herself had extra-marital relationships and a son by another man. Put in context, Kadalie’s autobiographical silences point to wider anxieties over gender, Christianity and citizenship in the retrospective narration of masculine leadership in pre-apartheid South Africa.

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“我是一个坏土生土长的人”：克莱门茨·卡达莉传记中的男子气概和婚姻

摘要 在 1920 年代，克莱门茨·卡达列 (Clements Kadalie，c.1895-1951) 支持一种全新的黑人男子气概，拒绝白人监督，贬低殖民“文明”的“伪善”，并摒弃其他黑人既定的父权制做法。组织。作为“坏小子”工会成员，卡达列和非洲工商工会的其他领导人因其粗言秽语和“放荡”而受到谴责，但其中许多所谓的“过失”也是他们成功的关键，因为南部非洲历史上第一个群众性黑人组织的民粹主义领导人。然而，在 Kadalie 辞去 ICU 总书记的职务后，他开始将这些特征中的许多视为失败，并将它们写在他的自传《我的生活和 ICU》中，试图描绘一个“有价值的故事”。到 1940 年代，作为已婚、温和的黑人议员“复兴”的一部分，卡达莉与黑人体面的早期敌对关系发生了根本性的转变。伴随着分歧、离婚、酗酒、外遇和私生子，这篇文章讲述了卡达莉生活中性别和家庭的尴尬地位，以及他的传记中我的生活和 ICU 故意规避的前景。虽然他与莫莉戴维森的第一次婚姻在无数事件后结束，但他的第二任妻子伊娃穆尔黑德本人有婚外情，并与另一个男人生了一个儿子。在上下文中，卡达莉的自传式沉默表明，在种族隔离前南非男性领导的回顾性叙述中，对性别、基督教和公民身份的更广泛焦虑。