Assess the role of trade unions in the political changes of the 1970s and 1980s

Francis Meli in A History of the ANC believes that the African National Congress can be split into several time frames each facing different situations and going about dealing with them in different ways. The relevant period of the 1970s to the 1980s which we are to deal with in this essay can be best analysed in chapter 7 of his book The re-emergence of the ANC (1969-1985). I am not simply trying to deal with …

…H, Davenport South Africa:A Modern History MacMillan Press, 1987 M Lipton Capitalism and Apartheid Gower Publishing, 1985 F Meli South Africa belongs to us Zimbabwe Publishing House 1988 G Gerhart Black power in South Africa University of California Press 1978 P Price Apartheid Regime University of California Press 1978 R Gibson African Liberation Movements Oxford University Press 1972 References: 1:T.R.H, Davenport South Africa:A Modern History page 418 2:P Price Apartheid Regime page 84 3:M Lipton Capitalism and Apartheid page 345