The national liberation struggle in South Africa
Subtitle: a case study of the United Democratic Front, 1983-1987
By: Gregory F. Houston.
Series: Democracy and governance in the new South Africa
Publisher: Brookfield, Vt. USA; Ashgate
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: United Democratic Front (South Africa); National liberation movements -- South Africa.; Self-determination, National -- South Africa.; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994.
Description: The banning of the South African black opposition - the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) - in 1960 and the repression of African trade unions thereafter discouraged most forms of African organisation during the 1960s. After they were banned, the ANC and the PAC adopted revolutionary strategies aiming at the radical transformation of South African society through, among other things, armed struggle. The subsequent clampdown on political organisations led to the arrest and imprisonment of some of their leaders, such as Nelson Mandela and Robert Sobukwe. The ANC and the PAC then established missions-in-exile, leaving an organisational vacuum in the country which was partly filled by the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) during the 1970s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-286) and index.