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Transcripts for Section 5 of Episode 20
| Time | Summary | | | 35:43 | During the early eighties the principle strategy used as it were to suppress militancy emerging in the townships was to use basically the powers of the state, mass detentions, attempts to use the police in particular to prevent gatherings and meetings. But it seemed to backfire. With every new method of repression communities became more cohesive, more militant; more politically conscious. | Full Transcript | | 36:10 | It’s clear that there’s always been a range of surrogate vehicles through which the state security apparatuses effectively destabilized their opponents throughout the 1980s. Precisely because this is a hidden hand the nature of so-called third force activity has always been covert. It’s very hard to establish clear evidence of the links between them. But there’s very little doubt, just on the sheer weight of information available, that there was extensive involvement particularly of criminal youth gangs in attacks on politically targeted individuals and groupings. | Full Transcript | | 36:52 | The vigilante groups which emerged had revealed a really quite stark common pattern. In most cases they were disaffected groups in townships, perpetrating violence mostly against UDF aligned youth groups; they seemed to operate with what I might call a police license; they were protected from retaliatory measures and they seemed to enjoy some form of organised support, weapons, transport and so on. As such I would say that vigilantism is a sort of classic form of third force activities. | Full Transcript | | 37:36 | This 1986 Bureau of Information sponsored peace song was part of the National Party’s all out campaign to win the hearts and minds of black South Africa. It perceived a total onslaught and devised a total strategy in response; a strategy characterized by reform and repression, peace songs and dirty tricks, emergency regulations and upgrading of townships. It then sold the resultant package of gruesome conflict to the world and its supporters as black on black violence. | Full Transcript | | 38:27 | Confrontation between two groups in the black community became evident, those who favoured evolutionary reform and revolutionaries committed to violence. Ensuing black on black violence was the horrific result of the confrontation. | Full Transcript | | 38:41 | The government has had no choice because it’s responsible for the safety of the lives and property of South African citizens to declare a state of emergency. | Full Transcript and References | | 38:53 | But of course it wasn’t like that and Mrs. Thatcher and so on were clearly influenced by their perspective or what they could see of the violence. By saying ‘black on black’ violence you’re attempting to give an explanation of the causes, but it’s as useful as explaining the causes of the Serbian Bosnian conflict as white on white violence. | Full Transcript |
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