Speech by the guest speaker, Joe Phaahla, President of the Azanian Students' Organisation (AZASO), at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 28 November to 3 December 1981. Refers, inter alia, to the development of a broad democratic front forming in reaction to continuing state repression.
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The student movement in the struggle for democracy

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