Radicalisation of resistance and the turn to armed struggle
What Radicalisation of resistance and the turn to armed struggle means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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With the ANC and PAC forced underground, Umkhonto we Sizwe was formed in 1961 and Poqo emerged, marking a turn to armed struggle.
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