| | Discussion of the continuing resistance to racist domination in southern Africa, the process of dispossession and resettlement of Africans in SA, and the state's strategy for reconstructing racial domination in the face of opposition. The reform process of the early 1980s reflects the need of the SA state to maintain political control while ensuring the reproduction of capital (the Wiehahn and Riekert reports), but efforts to present a picture of democratisation conflict with the concentration of state power in the President and State Security Council. Thus reforms are accompanied by increasing violence and coercion from the state internally (against student resistance, workers and civic associations) and externally (destabilisation of frontline SADCC countries). Growing repression is countered as new opposition emerges: the rise of the UDF (United Democratic Front) and National Forum; new debate within FOSATU about the role of the workers in the struggle. |
