The Poqo insurrection
| dc.contributor.author | Lodge, Tom | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-18T11:05:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-02-18T11:05:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1986-02 | |
| dc.description | African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented February 1986 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper is about one of the least successful of South Africa's revolutionary movements. Several thousand Poqo insurrectionists were arrested during the course of the 1960s. The vast majority of these were detained and convicted before they had had a chance to strike a single blow. Fewer than thirty deaths can be attributed to the activities of Poqo adherents of whom nearly the same number were sentenced to death in South African courts. The history of the Poqo uprisings is a history without a climax. Its final act takes place in the courtrooms not the barricades. Perhaps for this reason the Poqo story has lacked a chronicler. This paper is an attempt to compensate for the perfunctory treatment Poqo has received from historians. It provides a narrative of Poqo's development and a description of its social following. It then attempts to assess Poqo's historical significance. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/9054 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | African Studies Institute;ISS 258 | |
| dc.subject | Pan Africanist Congress of Azania | en_US |
| dc.title | The Poqo insurrection | en_US |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |