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Title: | Azapo and the PAC: revolutionary watchdogs? |
Author: | Nyatsumba, Kaizer M. |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | South African Review - SARS |
Issue: | 6 |
Pages: | 95-101 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Azanian Peoples Organization Pan Africanist Congress |
Abstract: | Africanist and black consciousness organizations such as the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the Azanian Peoples Organisation (Azapo), and their allies, were caught napping by President De Klerk of South Africa on 2 February 1990, when he announced their unbanning. Until that day the PAC was a little known organization among whites and a somewhat forgotten organization among blacks. After its unbanning, the PAC remained violently opposed to holding talks with Pretoria. The first sign of disagreement with this point of view within the PAC came around June 1990. New leaders, elected at the PAC's second national congress in December 1990, realistically assessed that negotiations were inevitable. Azapo, which was never banned outright, but declared 'affected' in 1988, managed to regroup with ease after February 1990. This organization also moved slowly towards negotiations. Talks between the ANC and the PAC resulted in the formation of a Patriotic Front (PF). Azapo, invited to the PF conference as convener, was later stripped of that status. Although the conference brought the ANC and the PAC much closer together, the PAC later pulled out of the PF. The PAC and Azapo are now turning their energies to campaigning vigorously against the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa). |