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"Through her far-ranging autobiography, Kogila Moodley provides readers with a detailed glimpse of how she managed as a person of color amid divided societies, from Apartheid South Africa, to anti-Semitism in Europe, and sectarian conflict in the Middle East. Moodley's message to readers is to find ways to combat oppression and racism in order to foster a more interconnected world"--

The idea of Black Consciousness heralded an era of alternative political awareness in the late 1960s. A self-empowering, vibrant, reconstructionist world-view emphasised the potential rôle of black initiatives and responsibility in articulating the power of the powerless. Between 1968–76, the Black Consciousness Movement (B.C.M.), as it became known, was one of the most important developments in South Africa, not only as the result of the self-confident protest and rebellion that it unleashed, but also 'because of the questions it posed about the nature of oppositional politics in South Africa and its relation to the nature of South African society'.1

On 21 March 1985, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the infamous Sharpevile incident, South African police, without provocation or warning, killed 20 unarmed black marchers at Langa in the Eastern Cape. Most were shot in the back. The outnumbered contingent of white and black police with two armoured vehicles, felt that the blacks, on their way to a funeral, would threaten the white township.The repetition of this crudest form of state violence against politicised youngsters and workers, threatened by recession after two-and-a-half decades of anti-apartheid opposition, suggests that little has changed in the repression by a minority ré. The rulers command the guns and the subordinates are left wiht no alternative but to submit or perish.

Aktuelle Analyse der komplexen innenpolitischen Situation in Südafrika. Anstelle des üblichen Schwarz-Weiß-Feindbildes wird versucht, eine allen Seiten gerecht werdende Interpretation der südafrikanischen Wirklichkeit zu geben. Gruppenrechte, Rassen und Klassenbildung. Reformmaßnahmen und weiterhin bestehende Apartheidsstrukturen. Rolle und Einstellung der Wirtschaft gegenüber der Apartheidsgesellschaft und der Regierung. Fragen an die Zukunft. (DÜI-Hlb)