The state and political struggle: strategies of repression and resistance in the greater Cape Town area from 1985 to 1989

Abstract

In the period 1985 to 1989 both the state and the liberation movements sought to implement strategies of repression and resistance inside South Africa. These unfolded in the different regions of the country in unique ways. In the absence of detailed regional studies of the encounter between the two, this study examines the experience of Cape Town.