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The formation of the United Democratic Front was ‘the most important and truly organisational expression of popular resistance in South Africa in the 1980s’. Photo: Eli Weinberg/Robben Island Mayibuye Archive
APARTHEID

Let’s draw lessons from people’s power on 40th anniversary of State of Emergency

The planned National Dialogue should aim to achieve a resurgence of people’s power so evident in the 1980s resistance to apartheid

  • Tshepo Madlingozi
8 min read
It is important that a national dialogue be structured to allow for a protracted and open space for talking and listening.
CODESA PROCEEDINGS

Building a people-powered plan for South Africa through national dialogue

A national dialogue offers the opportunity to unite South Africans around a common vision, thereby giving rise to a people of national unity

  • Klaus Kotze
7 min read