| | Cape Town takes some time to initiate mass resistance against apartheid, but once ignited it gathers and sustains an intense momentum, drawing in a broad spectrum of grassroots community organisations, trade unions and, particularly, black schools, colleges and the University of the Western Cape (UWC), established by the government as a separate university for Coloured students. The Western Cape is distinguished by the predominance of so-called 'Coloureds' among its residents and diverse political traditions represented by the Unity Movement (UM) and the United Democratic Front (UDF). Today the UDF commands a great deal of support in the Western (Cape and has become the chief target for state repression. Nevertheless the core of resistance in the Western Cape remains the politics of street survival, with thousands of youth and goods taking to the streets to fight the police. |
