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‘The Politic of Blood’: Political Repression in South Africa

By Richard Pithouse

Book information

Publisher
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Year
2020
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1143578 bytes)
Pages
\42
Time added
2023-07-29 15:20:18

Description

A study of political repression in South Africa after apartheid.After apartheid independent forms of self-organisation and popular demands for more participatory forms of democracy were frequently treated as criminal, as plots by foreign powers, or as machinations by remnants of the apartheid intelligence forces aimed at restoring apartheid. Frantz Fanon warned in 1961 of the ‘incapacity of the national middle class to rationalize popular action, that is to say their incapacity to see into the reasons for that action’. That warning would prove all too prescient in post-apartheid South Africa.

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