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Political Violence in South Africa: The Role of Youth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Saths Cooper
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Extract

A meaningful understanding of the causes of political violence in South Africa and youth’s role in its dénouement must consider some of the historical background to the national struggle for human rights and youth’s specific involvement thereof. The phenomenon of adolescent marchers and activists who characterized the resistance to Apartheid over the last decade has had sequelae and antecedents that reflect the core of the South African dilemma.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 27 - 29
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1994 

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Saths Cooper is a graduate of the Universities of South Africa and the Witwatersrand, and Boston University where he obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology. He has taught at the latter two universities and the University of the Western Cape. He has written and presented papers in South Africa, the U.S., Canada, Japan, London and Paris.