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On 3 September 1984 a bloody uprising set the African townships of the Vaal Triangle aflame. Triggered by dissatisfaction over rent increases and a local government that was failing to provide any meaningful political power or social transformation to the black majority, it heralded the insurrectionary period that was to profoundly challenge the administrative and coercive capacities of the apartheid state and greatly contribute towards its demise. Led by a broad coalition of civic organisations, student bodies and trade unions, nationwide protests followed demanding a new political and social order. By the mid-1980s the ideological influence of the African National Congress (ANC) had established its hegemony among township activists and was regarded as the main force in the liberation struggle.Arguing that liberation from poverty and inequality played as significant role in driving the struggle against apartheid as political rights, Rueedi shows how the enactment of the ideals of the 1955 Freedom Charter during the insurrectionary period shaped how communities understood liberation and freedom, both during and after apartheid. She explores the ways in which the establishment and subsequent failure of the model townships was intertwined with struggles for social transformation and dignity; investigates the links between underground networks of the ANC and above ground community structures; and examines how increasing state repression fuelled militancy and political violence, leading to an impasse that signalled the beginning of the end of the apartheid regime.Franziska Rueedi is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of History, University of Zrich.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Struggle for Freedom and EmancipationUrbanisation and the Making of the HomeWhen it rains, the roof leaks: Reforms and the Housing CrisisQuite a fertile soil: Civic Protest and the Ascendancy of CharterismLike people having been enclosed suddenly exploding: 3 September 1984Turning the Tide: The Uprising and its AftermathInstigators and Agitators: The State RespondsAnd then you begin to push harder and harder: Peoples Power and the Dawn of the NewConclusion: Dream DeferredBibliography

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The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa

Franziska Rueedi

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Franziska Rueedi 2021

First published in hardback 2021

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ISBN 978-1-84701-261-6 (James Currey hardback)

ISBN 978-1-84701-262-3 (James Currey Africa-only paperback)

ISBN 978-1-80010-176-0 (James Currey ePub)

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Design: Toni Michelle

Cover illustration: Untitled sketch of South African protest; pen and ink, by Judy Seidman, Gaborone 1982 ( Judy Seidman)

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