Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle

Origin date: 20 May
Updated: 1 Sep 2019

Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. These two groups, from which Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo came, were against the apartheid government.

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South African History Online. (2013, May 24). Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0095731

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