April 27 marked the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s first-ever one-person, one-vote elections regardless of race and gender. The oppressed and most exploited workers were no passive victims or bystanders in our liberation struggle that ended the apartheid regime. Missing this point could culminate in the fatalistic notion of expecting workers to be passive recipients of post-1994 development progress.
The working class fought in all the key sites of the struggle – the workplace, the community and the ideological terrain, among others, and in all its four pillars – mass mobilisation, underground organisation, the armed struggle and international isolation of the
