An organization of young, white South Africans formed 40 years ago to resist the powerful apartheid state.
Armongers need young men and women as fodder. But, as we are seeing again in the bloody conflicts raging in places such as Israel (see right) and Russia (see below), there will always be those who resist — refuseniks who say, “Hell no, we won’t go!” or “Not in our name.” And with conscripts being mostly young people , popular culture is often prominent their in resistance.
Exactly 40 years ago, an organisation of young, white South Africans was formed and they immediately found themselves in a battle of fingers with the powerful apartheid state. The subversivePW, or “Die Groot Krokodil” (Afrikaans for “the big crocodile”), had been prime minister since 1978. In 1984, he became South Africa’s first executive state president, and stayed in the position until 1989. But the paranoid Botha did not care, because white South Africa faced what he called a “total onslaught”. Forces both within the country and in its neighbouring states were resisting aparthei
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