Rethinking South Africa's Transition: From Transformative to Mainstream Approaches to Participatory Development

By the mid-1980s black township activists from across South Africa had risen up in an unprecedented manner to delegitimize and challenge the apartheid state. By the end of 1985, a new era in politics emerged in Alexandra, a small and densely populated township North East of Johannesburg, under the ideology of ‘people's power’. Perhaps more than any other place in