UDF 40th anniversary: Call to action to 'reclaim our democracy
The UDF40 steering committee has outlined its plan to harness the UDF’s legacy, principles and practices to mobilise active citizenry.
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The UDF40 steering committee has outlined its plan to harness the UDF’s legacy, principles and practices to mobilise active citizenry.
I was one of the Standard 4 (now Grade 6) pupils at Bulumko Senior Primary School in Mdantsane, East London, that June of 1976
This article and those that precede and follow it concern revolutionary (or emancipatory) consciousness and revolutionary activity in the context of the South African struggle for freedom. (See https://www.polity.org.za/article/revolutionary-or-emancipatory-consciousness-and-action-before-and-after-199094-part-one-2023-05-24 and https://www.polity.org.za/article/how-meanings-of-revolutionaryemancipatory-consciousness-and-actions-need-to-change-over-time-part-two-2023-05-29). This is a struggle that has passed through various phases and continues to change since the aspirations of t...
Not everyone who wanted to assist the ANC could make formal contact with the organisation and be formally inducted as a member. There was, however, a category of people who tried to act as the ANC required, learning what they could of ANC directives and performing as an ANC cadre or activist wa...
Apartheid blighted the souls of everyone it touched, and none more so than the Mandela couple.