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The apartheid regime had been tested in a way that it had not experienced for some time. Both sides rethought how they would confront one another.

As indicated, the decade after the Rivonia Trial was not one of the absence of resistance, although in the case of the ANC and SACP cadres, they had to keep a low profile because the organisations were illegal after 1960 and massive repression was meted out against its members, before and after Rivonia. This is part four of a series on revolutionary/emancipatory consciousness and actions. For previous parts see: (See ...

Fani Mahuntsi, Gallo Images What came out at the Zondo commission regarding the activities of the State Security Agency bears a close resemblance to what happened under the apartheid government, writes Mike Pothier. When thinking about the fall of any dictatorship, one should have no illusions that the whole system comes to an end like a bad dream with that fall. [I]ts psychological and social results live on for years, and even survive in the form of subconsciously continued behaviour. In such circumstances history begins to turn in a tragic, vicious circle from which it can sometimes take ...