What other strategies were used by organisations like the ANC to end apartheid?
Inside the country it was mainly community struggles, for example, the rent boycott. People did not pay rent because they felt that local government was illegitimate; it was a struggle for a better education, we had Bantu education, it was basically apartheid education. In exile, [some] came up with the idea of disinvestment, calling for economic boycott and sanctions; also a sports boycott, not allowing South African sporting teams to compete with other countries – basically declaring apartheid a pariah state. There was also an armed struggle, guerrilla warfare. The main and the most important struggle was mass action inside the country, strikes, rent boycotts, that sort of stuff. Can you explain what impact the end of apartheid had on activists and workers? Obviously people were very happy; it was like for Christians the second coming. Certainly it was almost a festival of the oppressed. I remember hundreds of thousands marching in the streets, thousands going to listen to Nelson Man