Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on references
- Introduction
- 1 South Africa and South Africans: Nationality, Belonging, Citizenship
- 2 Imperialism, Settler Identities, and Colonial Capitalism: The Hundred-Year Origins of the 1899 South African War
- 3 Class, Culture, and Consciousness in South Africa, 1880–1899
- 4 War and Union, 1899–1910
- 5 South Africa: The Union Years, 1910–1948 – Political and Economic Foundations
- 6 South African Society and Culture, 1910–1948
- 7 The Apartheid Project, 1948–1970
- 8 Popular Responses to Apartheid: 1948–c. 1975
- 9 Resistance and Reform, 1973–1994
- 10 The Evolution of the South African Population in the Twentieth Century
- 11 The Economy and Poverty in the Twentieth Century
- 12 Modernity, Culture, and Nation
- 13 Environment, Heritage, Resistance, and Health: Newer Historiographical Directions
- Statistical Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
9 - Resistance and Reform, 1973–1994
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on references
- Introduction
- 1 South Africa and South Africans: Nationality, Belonging, Citizenship
- 2 Imperialism, Settler Identities, and Colonial Capitalism: The Hundred-Year Origins of the 1899 South African War
- 3 Class, Culture, and Consciousness in South Africa, 1880–1899
- 4 War and Union, 1899–1910
- 5 South Africa: The Union Years, 1910–1948 – Political and Economic Foundations
- 6 South African Society and Culture, 1910–1948
- 7 The Apartheid Project, 1948–1970
- 8 Popular Responses to Apartheid: 1948–c. 1975
- 9 Resistance and Reform, 1973–1994
- 10 The Evolution of the South African Population in the Twentieth Century
- 11 The Economy and Poverty in the Twentieth Century
- 12 Modernity, Culture, and Nation
- 13 Environment, Heritage, Resistance, and Health: Newer Historiographical Directions
- Statistical Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Between 1973 and 1994, a succession of protests and rebellions transfigured South African political life. These eruptions assumed different forms and supplied different leaders and followers within different groups, but increasingly they converged strategically. Together, they embodied a challenge to authority without precedent in its scale, its resilience and in its depth of organisation. Early stages of this resistance engendered significant shifts in government policies. These policy shifts themselves in turn both facilitated and provoked fresh waves of revolt. Whilst opening up new opportunities for organised resistance, a combination of liberal reforms and militarised repression succeeded in containing or at least defining limits to popular insurgency. The relative success of these state policies helps to explain why the political settlement of 1994 left intact much of the structure of an extremely inequitable society.
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