30 years later, former "white" parties are still trying to stop the ANC
Peace please. Soweto, April 1994. Photo: Annika Langa One of the most convenient myths about South Africa’s transformation from an Apartheid state to a democratic is that the Nationalist Party under the leadership of President FW de Klerk was embracing the changes. They were not. In fact, they did everything in their power to delay freedom and democracy, and to weaken the ANC. At the same time as the ANC was unbanned on the 2nd of February 1990, the Apartheid regime unleashed the Third Force, and an orchestrated so called tribal war between the Xhosas ("ANC") and the Zulus ("Inkatha"). It was a sinister and lethal strategy, not to mention racist. As a result, political violence surged. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people died. It also, at least initially, spread an image of blacks being too uncivilized to rule South Africa. The Apartheid government denied involvement, but we who were there, on the ground, saw it with our own eyes. Survivors of attacks talked about iz
