After independence, when the NP were able to gain power in the election, and then change a tonne of things very quickly to solidify their power and prevent ever losing it again. Even then, there was hope.
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One has only to read my favourite South African book 'Cry, The Beloved Country' to see that people still thought it would be ok. And it wasn’t immediate. It took years.
The difference between then, and now, is the Internet. People can talk, unify, organise, and protest on a much larger scale, and now the weight of recent history is with them.
In 1962, when many Black citizens were massacred for daring to approach a police station in defiance of the Pass Laws, this was only known when and if media reported on it.
There was no BlueSky, no Instragram, no video recordings or photos. And the fact is, despite the right wing fascists attempting to pull the ‘What you think you saw, you did not see’ now there is simply too much evidence.
What we need, the left leaning people of the world, is to unite. The anti-Apartheid campaign would never have worked if the ANC hadn’t been a hugely powerful unifying force. The N@zis would never have been defeated if not for unifying against them.
Unfortunately, what I see if people wanting the left to do different things, in different ways, and instead of compromising they all agree they should go their separate ways, leaving no defence against the fascists.
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