War Resisters’ International news, Jan. 1, 2006, by Stephen Zunes
While many Western governments argued that the benevolent influence of Western capital would gradually force an end to South Africa’s apartheid system and many on the left argued that liberation would come only through armed revolution, in fact it was largely unarmed resistance by the black majority and its supporters, both within South Africa and abroad. The resistance of the 1980s was centered on massive noncooperation… [source]