An indigenous portrayal of the role of the Christian clergy in the struggle for liberation: a study in Milubi's drama

Abstract

The impoverished black masses of South Africa fiercely resisted the white minority apartheid regime between 1948 and 1990. The white-dominated government used the so-called homelands system in an attempt to neutralise black opposition to apartheid and withhold political rights from Africans. Resistance to apartheid basically appeared in two forms: peaceful protest of various kinds and underground armed resistance against the regime. Inside South Africa, protest and demonstrations were waged mainly by political and civic organisations, churches, trade unions and student movements. This paper examines the contribution of the work of the distinguished Venda author and academic, Ntshavheni Alfred Milubi, in the political struggle to achieve universal human rights for the majority of South Africa's population.