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THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN  \nISBN 978-1-77018-225-7  \n© Department of Education 2008  \nAll rights reserved. You may copy material from this publication for use in non-profit education programmes if you acknowledge the source. For use in publication, please obtain the written permission of the Department of Education.  \nEnquiries  \nDirectorate: Race and Values, Department of Education, Room 223, 123 Schoeman Street, Pretoria  \nTel: 012 312-5080  \nFax: 012 326-1909  \n[Email: values@doe.gov.za](Email: values@doe.gov.za)  \nThe Department of Education gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Royal Netherlands Embassy towards the development and distribution of this publication.  \nCELEBRATING PEOPLE’S POWER IN THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA  \n2  \nINTRODUCTION  \nhis book was written in 2008, the year of the  \nTNelsh biMarthdandelayofWetheoftanther ocelebour nationate the hero,es who are well known and who have a celebrity status, but as Madiba himself said:  \n“The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans and that we are citizens of the world.”  \n-State of the Nation Address at the Houses of Parliament, May 24, 1994  \nThis book is a celebration of all those women and men whose names we do not know by heart, but whose sacrifices have all played apart in creating a democratic South Africa.  \nThey risked being harassed, being shot at by the police, being imprisoned, being put under house arrest, being detained without trial, being tortured and being assassinated. They did not necessarily become famous or wealthy in the new South Africa. They did not necessarily live to see the liberation of their land. They were women and men, youth, workers, soldiers, teachers, academics, domestic workers, farmers, artists, professionals – fellow comrades all united in the struggle. Their deeds of courage call us all to action now! Like them we must encourage each other, learn as much as we can about the challenges that face us today, grow a vision for the 21st century and play our part in making that vision come true.  \n■ It may surprise you to discover that it was women who organised the first non-racial, mass action in South Africa. The Bantu Women’s League was an important stepping stone in the mostly hidden history of the struggle of women in South Africa. In the chapter, OUR WOMEN LED THE WAY, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Bantu Women’s League and the formidable women’s movement that grew around it.  \n■ Another group of largely unnamed heroes are the workers whose mass strike campaigns helped bring apartheid to its knees. In WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Durban  \nstrikes. These historic worker’s strikes created a chain reaction of strikes throughout the country in the 1970s and revived the trade union movement, which flourished in the 1980s.  \n■ In the last days of apartheid, extreme violence both in and outside South Africa reached a peak. In THE BATTLE OF CUITO CUANAVALE we commemorate the 20th anniversary of an historic battle that ended the dominance of apartheid military forces in southern Africa. This battle was also the expression of a violent civil war in Angola and the Cold War conflict between the USA and the USSR. It is an example of how our struggle for liberation was intimately connected to other struggles all over the world.  \n■ In the 1980s South Africans from every walk of life joined hands in the final push to destroy the oppressive forces of apartheid. In FORWARD TO PEOPLE’S POWER we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of the United Democratic Front (UDF). The UDF brought all sorts of organisations and ind","cbCaivCRwgw77u96","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivCRwgw77u96","pdf",5291087,92,"English","# Introduction\n## Celebrating collective peoples’ power\n## Women-led action and the Bantu Women’s League\n## Workers’ mass strikes and Durban strikes\n## The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale\n## Forward to People’s Power and the UDF\n## Lives Well Lived and Mandela & Albertina Sisulu\n## Learning activities and reader involvement","[{\"question\":\"What does AMANDLA! 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