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In the black township of Alexandra in April 1986, an elderly resident stood watching a group of teenagers erect a roadblock of burning tyres at the end of his dirt road. They were attempting to prevent police and army vehicles from entering the township, then in the throes of an uprising. ‘This revolution’, he said, ‘it is a child’.1
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W. Finnegan, Crossing the Line: A Year in the land of apartheid (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987).
M. Murray, South Africa: Time of Agony, Time of Destiny. The Upsurge of Popular Protest (London: Verso, 1987) p. 195.
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Johnson, S. (1988). ‘The Soldiers of Luthuli’: Youth in the Politics of Resistance in South Africa. In: Johnson, S. (eds) South Africa: No Turning Back. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19499-5_3
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