Contested voices of former combatants in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Abstract

This chapter addresses non-state actors who through successful regime change find themselves trying to reintegrate while the new state deals with the problems of the huge disparities, injustices and inequalities left by the defeated regime. Tis does not necessarily result in heroic status or material largesse, and they can feel embittered, neglected and unrewarded. Te case study used to address this theme is post-apartheid