struggle, noun

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EnglishShow more Special sense of general English ‘a campaign of organized resistance..against a state regarded as oppressive’ (Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “struggle (n.)”).
In full the struggle, also with initial capital.
Organized opposition to apartheid in the form of political activism, labour strikes, and armed resistance, especially during its official implementation by the South African government and many of its institutions from 1948 to 1994. See also struggle icon.
1952 Z. Mothopeng in Drum July 10The present basis of the struggle is Africanism – we must broaden the basis.
1988 P. Lawrence in Saturday Star 9 July 11Africanism..sees the struggle in South Africa as primarily a struggle against colonialism and for ‘national liberation and self-determination’ of the indigenous people.
1991 K. Owen in Sunday Times 22 Sept. 29The [peace] accord has shifted the struggle from the military arena to the political.
1993 A. Drysdale in Weekend Argus 15 May 18In a big room alongside, the manne were playing pool at four tables, oblivious of the struggle. Everyone was having a time, ANC or no ANC across the way.
1997 W.P.B. Botha A Duty of Memory 174The struggle can take many forms. Each of us must find his or her own way of contributing to the new South Africa. We cannot all be soldiers.
2006 T.L. Chemaly in Grocott’s Mail 8 Aug. 11His wife, once dismissed from her job for “being a poison among other women” when trying to organise them in the struggle, eventually ignored her in-laws and became politically active.
2017 dailymaverick.co.za (DSAE Corpus)[T]hey were clearly identified as part of the enemy as defined by all the progressive forces (including the ANC, SACP, UDF, SACC and SANCO) not to mention the broader mass democratic movement during the Struggle.
Organized opposition to apartheid in the form of political activism, labour strikes, and armed resistance, especially during its official implementation by the South African government and many of its institutions from 1948 to 1994. See also struggle icon.
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