THE SOWETO REVOLT

"The 'Soweto' revolt was preceded by considerable wage increases won by the strikes. But massive increases in the prices of consumer goods and rising unemployment provided the tinder which made the 'Soweto Revolt' flare up nationally.

Germany, the main beneficiary of the preceding boom, then sponsored Black Consciousness via its Rhenish Churches and the co-sociationalist, Van der Ropp, leader of the German Afrika think-tank, patronised Black Review journal and Steve Biko.

But the USA, after hesitatingly tolerating Black Consciousness (BC), and noting that BC was partly an export from the USA of the same Black Power which Presidents Johnson and Nixon ruthlessly repressed, turned its back on BC and also on PAC and by 1980 began to sponsor the ANC."

-Dr. Hosea Jaffe