ABSTRACT
This chapter furnishes a detailed and comprehensive history of the various trajectories of Black resistance in South Africa in order to shed light on the current wave of changes observed in post-apartheid South Africa, including the watershed events that led to the negotiated settlement and the first post-apartheid national elections of 1994. From the perspective of many among the oppressed Black majority, a radical critical social and historical analysis of the South African situation reveals that the South African entity represents a combination of European settler-colonialism and racial capitalism within the context of the Western European subjugation of Africa. March 21, 1960, marked the watershed of South African liberation politics, when 69 Black people were killed and 188 wounded in Sharpeville, most shot in the back in cold blood after protesting in an anti-pass campaign organized by the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania.
