In an atmosphere of suffocatingly thick oppression on the southern tip of Africa, a group of anti-apartheid organizers gathered in 1979 to launch the Children’s Movement (CM). At the time, South Africa’s apartheid regime led a blanket assault on all Black opposition. Then prime minister PW Botha’s fears of student mobilization, labor organization, and the Black Consciousness Movement motivated the suppression or outright banning of resistance against the state. For children, this meant removing an element of critical thought at a crucial stage of development… read more
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