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Raymond Suttner interviews with UDF/ANC activists

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Kind interviews oral history
Producer Raymond Suttner
Coverage 1986-2004
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Resistance and liberation movements 1

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Work As cited Period How used
Suttner (2004) Author's 1980s interviews with UDF activists (Weza Made, Titus Mafolo, Gugile Nkwinti, Mapheti Leeuw, Paul Mashatile) 1986 Evidence for conditions under which people's power succeeded or degenerated: community involvement, crime control, consumer boycotts, street committees.
Suttner (2004) Author's interviews with Pityana, Mgijima and Serache on BC/ANC contact pre-1976 interviews 2002-2003 Supports claim that Black Consciousness figures and ANC underground had extensive contact and overlapping membership before 1976.
Suttner (2004) Interview with Weza Made, early 1986 (transcript) 1986 Shows activists saw street committees as implementing the Freedom Charter's 'The People Shall Govern!'.
Suttner (2004) Suttner's post-2001 interviews (Mothupi, Mohlala, Mashigo, Shoke, Jordan) 2002-2004 Supports claims on Radio Freedom listening, MK actions complementing civic grievances, the Northern Transvaal paper-trail episode, exile debate and Nchabaleng's murder.