The Purple Shall Govern: A South African A to Z of Nonviolent Action

by Dene Smuts

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Early in September 1989, peaceful protest marchers bearing placards proclaiming `the people shall govern' were sprayed with purple dye. A spirited activist seized the initiative and the nozzle from the police and painted Cape Town purple, while an inspired graffitist put the writing on thewall: The purple shall govern!Both handbook and history, this A-Z chronicles the most effective methods of nonviolent action used by South Africans in one of the largest grassroots eruptions of diverse nonviolent strategies employed in a single struggle in human history.… (more)

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Early in September 1989, peaceful protest marchers bearing placards proclaiming `the people shall govern' were sprayed with purple dye. A spirited activist seized the initiative and the nozzle from the police and painted Cape Town purple, while an inspired graffitist put the writing on thewall: The purple shall govern!Both handbook and history, this A-Z chronicles the most effective methods of nonviolent action used by South Africans in one of the largest grassroots eruptions of diverse nonviolent strategies employed in a single struggle in human history.

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