ABSTRACT
I remember a time when in the SECC [Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee] meetings people who were illegally connected would be asked to raise their hands, and almost everyone’s hands would go up. There’d be this sense of relief as almost everyone would be illegally connected. The only thing was that they were doing it as a criminal act individually. So, it was a question of turning what was a criminal act into a collective act of defiance. (Activist Trevor Ngwane, cited in Naidoo & Veriava 2005: 50)
