Committees, tyres and teenagers: "People's power" and "alternative structures" as part of the strategy of the ANC to render the country ungovernable during the 1980s

Authors

  • J-A Stemmet University of the Free State
  • S. L. Barnard University of the Free State

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.38140/sjch.v28i1.352

Abstract

"(T)hey brought with them another man…We all took the man across the veld…The four men started stabbing the…man in the back with large jungle knives. Jabo and Pogiso also stabbed the man with jungle knives…Impi poured petrol over the man from a one-litre Coke bottle. Impi then set the man alight with a match. The man then went mad and fell to the ground. He tried to roll on the ground to put the fire out but then Impi stopped him from rolling on the ground by putting a pitchfork in the man's side and the man screamed and died. Impi took the pitchfork out and we all went home…" one 17-year old teenager recollected.

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Published

2003-02-28

How to Cite

Stemmet, J.-A., & Barnard, S. L. (2003). Committees, tyres and teenagers: "People’s power" and "alternative structures" as part of the strategy of the ANC to render the country ungovernable during the 1980s. Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 28(1), 92–109. https://doi.org/10.38140/sjch.v28i1.352

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2003)

Section

Articles