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Black Education and the Dialectics of Transformation in South Africa, 1982–8
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
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After yet another period of unrest and spreading resistance among the black majority, the Pretoria régime struck back in February 1988. Seventeen organisations that had manoeuvred precariously on the margins of legal toleration were summarily banned – that is, prohibited from ‘carrying on or performing any activities or act whatever’–many of their leaders were detained, while the survivors were harried underground.
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