one road. After a 1985 uprising in the township of Langa, South African security forces abolished the township and forcibly relocated thousands of residents.
During the early 1960s, notes Herbst, the revolutionary African National Con- gress (ANC) renounced popular insurrec- tion as futile. Nelson Mandela warned that it would lead to strife among blacks. In fact, perhaps one third of the 2,600 blacks who were victims of political violence be- tween 1984 and November 1987 were killed other blacks....