THE SOUTH AFRICAN ‘WAR RESISTANCE’ MOVEMENT 1974–1994

Scientia Militaria

卷:43

Gavin Cawthra¹ 

[1] University of Johannesburg;

关键词: South African War Resistance;    COSAWR;    ANC;    African National Congress;    Post-apartheid security policy;    South African war resistance movement 1974-1994;    War resistance movement;    War resistance;    Apartheid South Africa;    Apartheid regime;    Black uprisings;    Soweto June 1976;    Conscription to the military;    South African anti-apartheid;    Revolutionary politics;    Liberation movement;    Soweto uprisings;    Black liberation movements in South Africa;    Anti-apartheid forces;    South African Liberation Support Committee;    SALSCOM;    South African Military Refugees Aid Fund;    SAMRAF;    South African war resisters;   

DOI  :  10.5787/43-2-1126

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

From the mid-1970s until the onset of negotiations to end apartheid in 1990, escalating military conflict in the Southern African region was accompanied by a steady increase of conscription dependent on the white male population in South Africa. This was compounded by a process of militarisation in the white community, under the apartheid regime’s ‘total national security strategy’.[i]In turn, this provoked a counter-reaction in the form a movement of resistance to conscription and more generally to the various internal and external conflicts.Resistance was initially led by exiled self-styled ‘war resisters’ who set up a number of support organisations. After some political contestation, one such organisation, the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) emerged as the leading force and aligned itself openly with the African National Congress (ANC).This paper is the first academic contribution to focus on COSAWR and touches on its legacy in terms of its influence on the ANC and the policy frameworks it helped establish for post-apartheid security policy.

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