The AHDSS covers much of what is now the Agincourt sub-district but was previously part of an apartheid Bantustan (or 'homeland'), Gazankulu, where African South Africans were resettled as part of the apartheid regimes strategy of 'separate development' (10).
"The regime's strategy has been just to play for time and stall with negotiations.
This is a standard "regime change" strategy, which often includes violent demonstrations in order to provoke state violence.
By the past weekend Capriles, who was initially wary of a potentially violent "regime change" strategy – was apparently down with program.
He was joining the opposition's efforts to de-legitimize the government, a vital part of any "regime change" strategy.
Nor will they be put off by the regime's strategy of cutting off the country's communications – our internet access, emails, mobile phones and, at the weekend, al-Jazeera.
The regime's strategy has been to play for time, believing that the protests would fade in the face of a faltering economy and government initiatives such as raising wages for state employees.
The regime's strategy was to imprison or intern any intellectuals who had the courage to raise their voice against the dictator Enver Hoxha, Albania's communist leader from 1944 until his death in 1985.
What this reflects, to a large extent, is the success of the Bahraini regime's strategy to deal with challenges to its legitimacy by promoting and reinforcing identity politics within a system of privileges where certain groups and individuals are favoured over others.
In dealing with those who reject Mubarak's move as insufficient, the regime's strategy may be to wait them out, to hope that, in time, the fervour and size of the protests will abate – that they will run out of steam.
