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Ryan, P. D. "Producing subjectivities, taking risks: New directions for teaching women?s poetry in South Africa." Literator 23, no. 3 (2002): 117–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v23i3.346.

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This paper is based on five years experience of teaching an innovative poetry course at third-year level at a distance education institution. Conceived at a time when universities across the country were in the throes of academic and institutional transformation, the course departed radically from the so-called knowledge-as-accumulated-capital ethos and pointed toward assumptions initiated by Paulo Freire that knowledge can meaningfully emerge from the interaction of students from different backgrounds and asymmetrical social positions, especially when such knowledge is situated within a conte

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Levey, David. "South African poetry - the inward gaze." Scrutiny2 6, no. 1 (2001): 75–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125440108565987.

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Conn, Stewart. "South African poetry: a personal view." Scrutiny2 3, no. 1 (1998): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.1998.10877335.

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HARESNAPE, GEOFFREY. "SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH POETRY AND JERUSALEM." English Studies in Africa 46, no. 2 (2003): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138390308691008.

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Byerman. "Talking Back: Phillis Wheatley, Race and Religion." Religions 10, no. 6 (2019): 401. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10060401.

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This essay examines the means by which African American poet Phillis Wheatley uses her evangelical Christianity to engage issues of race in revolutionary America. In her poetry and other writings, she addresses and even instructs white men of privilege on the spiritual equality of people of African descent.

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Joffe, Sharon L. "African American and South African Poetry of the Oppressed." Peace Review 13, no. 2 (2001): 201–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10402650120060382.

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Lockett, Cecily. "South African Women's Poetry: A Gynocritical Perspective." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 11, no. 1 (1992): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463781.

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van WYK, JORAN. "Afrikaans Poetry and the South African Intertext." Matatu 15-16, no. 1 (1996): 111–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000172.

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Lodge, Tom. "South African Communists and elections." Journal of African Elections 21, no. 1 (2022): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.20940/jae/2022/v21i1a1.

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In South Africa the Communist Party has a one-hundred-year history of contesting elections, making it the oldest electoral campaigner in Africa. South Africa’s elections were increasingly racially restrictive and segregated until 1994. Even so, from the mid-1920’s the Party began to focus on the concerns of its black membership though it continued to seek support from white workers. This article explores the Party’s reasons for continuing to participate in elections, and the circumstances that helped it achieve occasional victories at the polls. It also considers the effects of electoral parti

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Mbambo, Khanyi, and Mlungisi Vusumuzi Hlabisa. "South African rural high school teachers' experiences of teaching English poetry." Journal of Education, no. 97 (January 30, 2025): 261–81. https://doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i97a13.

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Research suggests a reluctance by teachers to teach poetry in South African English Second Language (ESL) classrooms. The teaching of poetry is shaped by issues such as resources, professional and personal experiences, societal influences, learners' attitudes toward poetry, and professional development opportunities. In this qualitative case study, we aimed to understand ESL teachers' experiences of teaching poetry in rural South African high schools by considering their Pedagogical Content Knowledge and how they align what they know about teaching with what they teach. Data was generated usin

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Woeber, C. "‘Text’ and ‘voice’ in recent South African poetry." Literator 17, no. 2 (1996): 131–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v17i2.610.

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This article explores in some depth two volumes of poetry which are indicative of a tension between the poem as ‘text’ and the poem as ‘voice’, or the self-conscious (metaphoric) ‘reading' or ‘rewriting ’ of the world versus the outward (prophetic) ‘speaking' to the world. While neither book is hermetically sealed and, like all rich poetry, delights in transgressing categories, each is distinctive enough to lend itself to exploration in terms of ‘text’ and ‘voice’. The article argues that John Mateer, the self-avowed iconoclast yet to find an individual voice, is postmodern in his reading and

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Meihuizen, Nicholas. "‘Shaping lines’: New South African poetry, 1994–1995." English Academy Review 12, no. 1 (1995): 84–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131759585310101.

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Smith, Linda Harms. "Barricades, struggles and hope: South African students' revolutionary will." Critical and Radical Social Work 4, no. 1 (2016): 127–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986016x14525999625322.

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D’Abdon, R. "RESISTANCE POETRY IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE POETIC WORKS AND CULTURAL ACTIVISM OF VANONI BILA." Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 24, no. 1 (2016): 98–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/1675.

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The article explores selected works of Vonani Bila, one of the most influential wordsmiths of post-apartheid South Africa. It outlines the difference between “protest poetry” and “resistance poetry”, and contextualises the contemporary expression(s) of the latter within today’s South Africa’s poetry scene. Focusing on Bila’s “politically engaged” poems and cultural activism, this article maintains that resistance poetry has re-invented itself in the post-94 cultural scenario, and still represents a valid tool in the hands of poets to creatively expose and criticize the enduring contradictions

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Iwuji, Dr Ugochukwu Ogechi, and Dr Chimeziri C. Ogbedeto. "Imagery of Putridity and Horror in Collins Emeghara’s A Chicken with One Leg." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 4, no. 02 (2025): 89–97. https://doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2025.v04i02.011.

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This paper deploys the theory of formalism to investigate the stylistic device of imagery in Nigerian poetry. It uses the poetry anthology of Collins Emeghara, a contemporary Nigerian poet, who, like his contemporaries, uses images of horror and putridity to depict the failure of leadership in Africa. The tone of his poetry is both angry and revolutionary. The poet’s persona’s society is impoverished, frustrated, and regressive. Emeghara’s art draws attention to the hopelessness that has benighted most African societies owing to poor leadership. The revolutionary aesthetics in some of the poem

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Barnard, Rita. "Speaking Places: Prison, Poetry, and the South African Nation." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 3 (2001): 155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2001.32.3.155.

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Lewis, Simon. "Conning the contours of South African poetry, 1970–2010." Journal of the African Literature Association 15, no. 1 (2021): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2020.1870374.

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Klopper, Dirk. "Ideology and the study of South African English poetry." Journal of Literary Studies 3, no. 4 (1987): 67–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718708529842.

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Foley, Andrew. "Anthologising South African poetry: historical trends and future directions." Scrutiny2 21, no. 2 (2016): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2016.1240150.

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RAMAKUELA, NDAVHE. "STEPPING WITH SEITLHAMO MOTSAPI: DIRECTION FOR SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY." English Studies in Africa 40, no. 2 (1997): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138399708691257.

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RETIEF, GLEN. "IMAGISM AND BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY: MONGANE WALLY SEROTE'SYAKHAL'INKOMO." English Studies in Africa 42, no. 2 (1999): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138399908691282.

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Skinner, Douglas Reid, and Andries Walter Oliphant. "Essential Things: An Anthology of New South African Poetry." World Literature Today 68, no. 1 (1994): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40150060.

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Chapman, Michael. "South African Poetry: A perspective from the other Europe." English Academy Review 18, no. 1 (2001): 54–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131750185310071.

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Pongweni, Alex. "Voicing the text: South African oral poetry and performance." Critical Arts 14, no. 2 (2000): 175–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560040085310141.

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Barnard, Rita. "Speaking Places: Prison, Poetry, and the South African Nation." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 3 (2001): 155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2001.0063.

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O'Brien, K. "Special Forces for Counter Revolutionary Warfare: The South African Case." Small Wars & Insurgencies 12, no. 2 (2001): 79–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/714005391.

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Azetu Azashi AGYO *. "Exploring Bodily Metaphor and Rhetorics of Dissent in Niyi Osundare's and Joe Ushie's Poetics." International Journal of Emerging Multidisciplinaries: Social Science 4, no. 1 (2025): 16. https://doi.org/10.54938/ijemdss.2025.04.1.443.

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The escalating climate crises and socio-economic instability in Africa underscore the urgent need for a reimagined relationship between humanity and the environment. The works of Joe Ushie and Niyi Osundare, prominent figures in African ecopoetry, offer a compelling lens through which to explore this intersection. While existing studies have examined the use of environmental themes in African literature, there is a dearth of research focusing specifically on bodily metaphor, revolutionary temper, and the call for sustainable development in osundare and ushie's poetics. Previous analyses have p

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Kief, I. Jonathan. "In the Southern Half of Our Republic: Cross-Border Writing and Performance in 1960s North Korea." Journal of Asian Studies 81, no. 1 (2022): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911821001509.

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AbstractThis article offers a revisionist perspective on the relationship between 1960s North and South Korean literature by showing how writers in the North engaged with and creatively rewrote works from the South. Contextualizing such practices within a longer history of cross-border reading in the North, the article highlights how North Korean poetry and drama from the immediate aftermath of South Korea's April Revolution of 1960 took up South Korean literature's image of the volcano and reimagined it as a symbol of North-South dialogue. The article then turns to Kim Myŏngsu's Mother of the

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Lewis, Simon. "“This Land South Africa”: Rewriting Time and Space in Postapartheid Poetry and Property." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 33, no. 12 (2001): 2095–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a33186.

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The widespread concern in recent South African poetry with landscape and the question of what place the poet occupies in that landscape arises less as a response to the turn of the millennium than to the historical end of formal apartheid, but nonetheless marks an epochal shift in sensibility. Whereas much poetry of the 1980s evoked a sense of extreme dislocation in recent time and local space (marked by references to a precarious present of forced removal and migrancy, and unspecified, unsettled futures), some significant recent work has been marked by a desire to relocate the human presence

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Michelle Decker. "Entangled Poetics: Apartheid South African Poetry between Politics and Form." Research in African Literatures 47, no. 4 (2016): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.4.05.

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Haring, Lee, and Jeff Opland. "Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition." Western Folklore 45, no. 1 (1986): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1499619.

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Deane, Kirsten. "The Coloured Voice: Finding Its Place in South African Poetry." Education Journal 10, no. 4 (2021): 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.edu.20211004.16.

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Miletich, John S., and Jeff Opland. "Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition." Comparative Literature 38, no. 4 (1986): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1770411.

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Abrahams, Roger D., and Jeff Opland. "Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition." Poetics Today 6, no. 3 (1985): 553. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1771916.

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Horwitz, Allan Kolski. "In the Heat of Shadows - South African Poetry 1996–2013." Scrutiny2 21, no. 2 (2016): 113–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2016.1242894.

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Biebuyck, Daniel P., and Jeff Opland. "Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition." Journal of American Folklore 98, no. 390 (1985): 486. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/540371.

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Garrett, R. Kelly, and Paul N. Edwards. "Revolutionary Secrets: Technology’s Role in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement." Social Science Computer Review 25, no. 1 (2007): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439306289556.

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Wessels, Michael. "Representations of Revolutionary Violence in Recent Indian and South African Fiction." Journal of Southern African Studies 43, no. 5 (2017): 1031–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2017.1337361.

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SELLICK, GARY. "“Undistinguished Destruction”: The Effects of Smallpox on British Emancipation Policy in the Revolutionary War." Journal of American Studies 51, no. 3 (2016): 865–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875816001353.

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In 1775, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, offered freedom to any African American who fought for the British cause against the colonial rebels in his province. Dunmore's plan to reconquer Virginia with his “Ethiopian Regiment” ended in failure, not due to a lack of willing volunteers but because of a familiar eighteenth-century killer: smallpox. Five years later, similar proclamations were issued in South Carolina. Yet smallpox again hindered British designs, devastating the eager African Americans who flooded to their lines. This paper uses primary source material and research on

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Mabunda, Magezi, and Cindy Ramhurry. "An analysis of the effects of history in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission poetry." South African Journal of Education 43, no. 4 (2023): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.15700/saje.v43n4a2236.

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Scholars raise 2 salient questions regarding poetry in post-apartheid South Africa. One is whether new poetry emerged in the post-apartheid South Africa, and the other is whether poetry produced during and after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is capable of capturing the imagination of the reading public without resorting to the bigotry of Black versus White. Literature highlights the need for South African poets to move away from using historical facts as the basis for making literary representation. We acknowledge that the use of historical facts as the basis for literary representat

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Van Vuuren, Helize. "“Labyrinth of loneliness”: Breyten Breytenbach’s prison poetry (1976–1985)." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 46, no. 2 (2017): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.46i2.3414.

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Breytenbach’s prison poetry is first contextualized as part of a South African subgenre that flourished under apartheid, and then interrogated for its specificities: the singular prison conditions under which he wrote, the nature of the poetry, specific leitmotifs in each of the five volumes published between 1976 and 1985. A psychoanalytic approach is indicated to this strong middle phase in his extensive poetical oeuvre, comprising seventeen collections of poetry.

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Genis, Gerhard, and Deirdre C. Byrne. "Amazwi Amasha: New Approaches to Sustainable Poetry Teaching and Learning." Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South 8, no. 2 (2024): 87–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v8i2.401.

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At many South African schools poetry is considered to be a “problem genre”, with both teachers and learners viewing it as “difficult” and as a genre that lowers schools’ pass rates in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) (Matric) examination. For this reason, schools tend to shy away from prescribing poetry at the Further Education and Training (FET) level (that is, in Grades 10-12). This article argues that the poems that are prescribed for English First Additional Language (EFAL) classes are difficult for learners to relate to because of having been written in contexts that are temporally a

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Benson, Devyn Spence. "Cuba Calls: African American Tourism, Race, and the Cuban Revolution, 1959–1961." Hispanic American Historical Review 93, no. 2 (2013): 239–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2077144.

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Abstract This essay explores the role that conversations about race and racism played in forming a partnership between an African American public relations firm and the Cuban National Tourist Institute (INIT) in 1960, just one year after Fidel Castro’s victory over Fulgencio Batista. The article highlights how Cuban revolutionary leaders, Afro-Cubans, and African Americans exploited temporary transnational relationships to fight local battles. Claiming that the Cuban Revolution had eliminated racial discrimination, INIT invited world champion boxer Joe Louis and 50 other African Americans to t

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Kotlerman, Ber. "SOUTH AFRICAN WRITINGS OF MORRIS HOFFMAN: BETWEEN YIDDISH AND HEBREW." Journal for Semitics 23, no. 2 (2017): 569–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3506.

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Morris Hoffman (1885-1940), who was born in a Latvian township and emigrated to South Africa in 1906, was a brilliant example of the Eastern European Jewish maskil writing with equal fluency in both Yiddish and Hebrew. He published poetry and prose in South African Yiddish and Hebrew periodicals. His long Yiddish poem under the title Afrikaner epopeyen (African epics) was considered to be the best Yiddish poetry written in South Africa. In 1939, a selection of his Yiddish stories under the title Unter afrikaner zun (Under the African sun) was prepared for publishing in De Aar, Cape Province (w

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Byrne, Deirdre Cassandra. "Water in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on Poetry by South African Women." Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 5, no. 1 (2021): 07. http://dx.doi.org/10.20897/femenc/9744.

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Kurtz, J. Roger, and Robert Berold. "South African Poets on Poetry: Interviews from New Coin, 1992-2001." World Literature Today 79, no. 1 (2005): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40158803.

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Gqola, Pumla Dineo. "Whirling worlds? Women's poetry, feminist imagination and contemporary South African publics." Scrutiny2 16, no. 2 (2011): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2011.631823.

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Schutte, Gillian. "The laugh of the Medusa heard in South African women's poetry." Scrutiny2 16, no. 2 (2011): 42–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2011.631827.

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Barnes, Lawrie. "The function and significance of code-switching in South African poetry." English Academy Review 29, no. 2 (2012): 70–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2012.730180.

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Suarez, Rafael. "The U.S. in South Africa." Worldview 28, no. 5 (1985): 9–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0084255900046179.

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Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, in conflict with both the current South African Government and supporters of violent revolutionary action, is said to offer a nonviolent, multiracial, and liberal-democratic approach to the struggle against apartheid. The controversial Zulu chief, chief minister of the tribal “homeland” of KwaZulu, and leader of the (legal) Inkatha movement in South Africa, was interviewed on February 18 at Occidental College, Los Angeles, during a ten-day tour of the United States. Rafael Suarez, Jr., is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for Cable News Network, through whose courtesy t

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