![]() ![]() After a reflection on what was practiced and understood in the movement in the 1980s, the paper offers some critical analysis of the current re-emergence of Black Consciousness and Africanist thinking. It went beyond an oppositional culture, and explored the possibility of egalitarian relationships which fundamentally challenged the existing power relations embedded in race, class and gender. This building of new cultures ran counter to the dominant racist, patriarchal, hierarchical and authoritarian cultures. ![]() The way in which organisations functioned and the culture of organisations were 'prefigurative' in anticipating the new South Africa that was being struggled for. The difficult and contested practice of nonracialism by grassroots movements in the 1980s was integrally related to attempts to inculcate non-sexist and democratic practices. The society envisaged by the popular movements of the 1980s was explicitly stated as being 'non-racial, non-sexist and democratic', situated within a unitary state. In this paper I defend nonracialism as a strategy and explore what was learned through the practice of nonracialism in popular movements during the late Apartheid era. ![]()
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