ANC engaged in 'ruthless people's war' - SAIIR head
20 May 2016
Pretoria - During the last decade of the struggle in South Africa, the ANC wanted hegemony over the country, Dr Anthea Jeffery, head of policy research at the Institute of Race Relations, said on Friday.
She said the ANC has always depicted its liberation struggle as a just war, fought by just means.
"But, in fact, the ANC's struggle - in its last decade from 1984 to 1994 - took the form of a ruthless people's war that was primarily aimed at giving the ANC hegemony over the new South Africa, rather than at liberation," Jeffery told people attending an AfriForum conference in memory of the victims of the Church Street bombing.
"This was especially the case from 1990 onwards, when the door to democracy had already been thrown open and there was no need to batter it down."