Abstract
The resistance movements in South Africa have shown an increased maturity in recent years, and this has found an echo in a corresponding maturity in the modification of the apartheid system itself. The contention here is that most of the ‘reforms’ brought about by the South African government have, in one way or another, been primarily provoked by resistance activity. The tricameral parliament and the newly proclaimed National Statutory Council (NSC) — the major components of the new dispensation at a national level — reflect the state’s increasingly ‘sophisticated’ responses in attempting to contain the emergent wave of resistance.
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M. Meredith, ‘The Black Opposition’, in Jesmond Blumenfeld (ed.), South Africa in Crisis (London: Croom Helm, 1987), pp. 77–89.
M. Sutcliffe, ‘The Crisis in South Africa: Material Conditions and the Reformist Response’, in Geoforum, vol. 17, no. 2, 1986, pp. 141–59.
See N. Haysom, Apartheid’s Private Army: The rise of right-wing vigilantes in South Africa (London: Catholic Institute of International Relations, 1986).
G. Leach, South Africa: No Easy Path To Peace (London: Methuen, 1986), pp. 207–9.
M. Murray, South Africa: Time of Agony, Time of Destiny. The Upsurge of Popular Protest (London: Verso, 1987), p. 423.
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Naidoo, K. (1988). Internal Resistance in South Africa: The Political Movements. In: Johnson, S. (eds) South Africa: No Turning Back. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19499-5_5
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