After the dissolution of the Industrial Socialist League and ISL into the CPSA , there was no active or explicit anarchist or revolutionary syndicalist movement in South Africa . The ICU exhibited revolutionary syndicalist influence , although this co-existed with ideas ranging from liberalism to black nationalism . Beginning with the " Durban Moment " in the early 1970s , New Left ideas began to influence parts of the anti-apartheid struggle . These brought some ( often indirect ) anarchist and revolutionary syndicalist influence into the political scene , although often not very pronounced or coherent . A key structure which emerged from the popular struggle of the 1970s was the Federation of South African Trade Unions ( FOSATU ) . The " workerist " tendency which developed in FOSATU , was indirectly influenced by anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism , among other currents . The " people 's power " tendency in the United Democratic Front ( UDF ) paralleled anarchist ideas with its call for replacing state structures with grassroots " people 's power . " There is no evidence that this strategy arose from anarchist or syndicalist ideas , although the UDF was influenced by FOSATU 's stress on " workers control " and prefiguration . Following the 1976 Soweto uprising , at least one leader of the Soweto Students Representative Council ( SSRC ) moved towards a situationist position in exile
Soweto uprising
Soweto uprising
Anarchism in South Africa