The willing and the not so willing : conscription and resistance to compulsory military service in South Africa, 1968-1989

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dc.contributor.authorDu Plessis ,Tienieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVan der Westhuizen, Gerten_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLiebenberg, Ianen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-03T08:19:34Z
dc.date.available2013-07-03T08:19:34Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionCITATION: Du Plessis, T., Van der Westhuizen, G. & Liebenberg, I. 2012. The willing and the not so willing : conscription and resistance to compulsory military service in South Africa, 1968-1989. Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 37(2):143–164, doi:10.38140/sjch.v37i2.234.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://journals.ufs.ac.za
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa participated in two world wars without implementing compulsory military service. Following the Second World War, the Union Defence Force relied on the Active Citizen Force to supplement its manpower needs. Leaders of the ruling National Party, influenced by the Cold War psychosis, myopically believed that global conflict was defined by two ideologies in a deadly struggle for dominance, nationalism and communism. Apartheid advocates made a distinction between the white “us” and the black “them”; Christianity against barbarism; Marxism-Leninism against Christian-Nationalism. Maintaining Nationalist rule increasingly demanded manpower. Conscription for white men was a reality for twenty years, supplying conscripts for border duty and later for suppressing internal unrest. More than 500 000 served in the military, many of them in northern Namibia, Angola and South African townships. War resisters were monitored, ostracised, ridiculed, forced to emigrate or jailed. This contribution shares some thoughts on the issue, including moral objections to apartheid violence and the militarisation of South African society.
dc.description.urihttps://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/article/view/234
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent22 pages
dc.identifier.citationDu Plessis, T., Van der Westhuizen, G. & Liebenberg, I. 2012. The willing and the not so willing : conscription and resistance to compulsory military service in South Africa, 1968-1989. Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 37(2):143–164, doi:10.38140/sjch.v37i2.234.
dc.identifier.issn2415-0509 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/82403
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherFaculty of Humanities, University of the Free State
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dc.subject.otherConscriptionen_ZA
dc.titleThe willing and the not so willing : conscription and resistance to compulsory military service in South Africa, 1968-1989
dc.typeArticle
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