Popular power, insurrectionism and their legacies
Both popular power and insurrectionism were important, albeit controversial components of the ANC-led struggle against apartheid. Both have some presence in contemporary South Africa. Regrettably there is only a limited manifestation of popular power today. But, because non-violence has never been endorsed as a central principle, warped versions of what was heroic in armed struggle still manifest themselves in various political and xenophobic thuggery At the time, of unbanning of the ANC, and the transition from apartheid repression to a new democracy, the ANC- led government drew on (or erase...
Source: polity.org.za
