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Protesting in Postapartheid South Africa Starting from the cycle of social protest that South Africa has been experiencing since the late 1990s, this article sheds light on the evolution of the space of social movements since apartheid ended. Taken as a framework for Black political expression in the 1970s and 80s, the space of social movements was drained of meaning with the advent of democracy in 1994. De-ranked and partly neutralized given its main actors' ties to the ANC-led government, it has recently been the backdrop for the emergence of new organizations challenging the socioeconomic policies conducted by the "liberating party." We will in particular study the terms of postapartheid reconfiguration of the space of social movements, the motives of rivalry taking hold between new organizations and the ANC, as well as the preferred practices of movementist activists.