Publisher's Synopsis
Early in September 1989, peaceful protest marchers bearing placards proclaiming "the people shall govern" were sprayed with purple dye. An activist seized the initiative and the nozzle from the police and painted Cape Town purple, while a graffitist put the writing on the wall: "The purple shall govern!";Both handbook and history, this A-Z chronicles the most effective methods of non-violent action used by South Africans in one of the largest grassroots eruptions of diverse non-violent strategies employed in a single struggle in human history.;The book should be of interest to anyone interested in current affairs and the resistance movement in South Africa.
