State Terror in South Africa

Among modern states, South Africa is and has been one of the most repressive. This has been most noticeable in the Sharpeville killings in 1960 and the more recent Soweto massacre. State repression is also implicated in the deaths, while in detention, of Steve Biko and of the white activist Neil Agget, as well as in continuing arrests, detentions, bannings, torture and executions. As in most other cases of state repression, such direct terrorism is merely a symptom of a much larger, many-sided and ultimately more important process of indirect state terror. This process can only be understood in the particular context of the changing racial system

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