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The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

David Hirschmann
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Black politics in South Africa changed dramatically after 1976. It spread far and fast, with black organisations multiplying at all kinds of levels. The African National Congress (A.N.C.) returned and the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.) emerged. The trade unions strengthened considerably and black youths demonstrated their power. Ideologies changed and evolved. Yet at the same time as the movement broadened and deepened its hold on black people, internal divisions grew more intense. Organisational, ideological, and strategic differences became more bitter, and leaders continued to accuse each other of betraying the struggle.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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