ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on disagreement about aspects of the struggle for justice; the report was published at a time when the anti-apartheid campaign was at its height, and race relations were always a particularly controversial subject. The struggle had been long and not entirely peaceful; demonstrators had been killed and leaders imprisoned; but it was not so bitter and violent a story as in East and Central Africa. The defiance of ordinary citizens, coupled with a low-key armed struggle waged by the liberation movements, the boycott of South African produce by consumers abroad, the demoralizing sports boycott and the mounting pressures on a faltering economy finally brought the end of apartheid. But the long years of struggle and economic hardship had left all sectors of society, including the church, weakened. The 1991 World Council of Churches (WCC) Assembly in Canberra affirmed 'the growing consciousness of the indigenous peoples' struggles for freedom, including that of the Dalits of India.
