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The formation of the United Democratic Front was ‘the most important and truly organisational expression of popular resistance in South Africa in the 1980s’. Photo: Eli Weinberg/Robben Island Mayibuye Archive

Let’s draw lessons from people’s power on 40th anniversary of State of Emergency

The planned National Dialogue should aim to achieve a resurgence of people’s power so evident in the 1980s resistance to apartheid

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