people's war

Explanation
a popular national rebellion of both trained soldiers and ordinary civilians during the mid- to late 80s. The strategy, promoted by the ANC, involved integrating armed MK combatants with mass organisations inside South African townships, and rendering the townships ungovernable through attacks on the security forces and other representatives of the state.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Cradock, Day 3 (12 February 1997)

MR GILBERT: Those boers must be arrested. You can't just acquit guilty people like that who shot at our children.

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 10 (31 July 1998)

CHAIRPERSON: This has not been a hearing where there's been a great deal of conflicting evidence where one has to weigh up the evidence. There have been differences between various people as to who was at what meeting, who did precisely what but the picture of what happened is reasonably clear, ...

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Decision (23 October 1998)

The objective of the boycott was purely political, it being instigated to undermine the local authority which was not democratically elected by all the people.

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