on-white citizens.
             Non-violent resistance, combined with organized underground sabotage and terrorism by the African National Congress in 1961. ANC leader Nelson Manila was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in 1964. Government crackdowns defeated the underground... until a rebellion in Soweto was crushed by the South African forces with heavy loss of life, in 1976.
             An unsuccessful bid to invade neighbouring Angola at the same time led to a recession in South Africa, for which the government was blamed.
             The problem began 250 years ago. The first European (white) settlers came to South Africa in the 17th century, and began treating non-white people as sub-human. Black Africans had lived there for thousands of years.
             The discovery of wealth, especially gold and diamonds, brought the might of the British Empire to South Africa, and the racist policies that denied non-white their basic human rights, grew stronger.
             "White Power" took hold, when Britain handed over power to th
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