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We demand peace and democracy now!
… letters. Issued by ANC-PWV, SACP-PWV, COSATU, SACTU, COSAS, etc., …
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… regimes grew, Buthelezi tried to forcefully suppressed student and community opposition. This led to open clashes with the UDF and its affiliates…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… were detained, and Congress of South African Students (COSAS) was banned in August. Murphy Morobe mentioned in …
Democratic opposition: the progressive movement in South Africa
… a joint sitting of the AZASO General Students Council and COSAS National Council in Durban, November - December 1982 …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… dishes in a campus cafeteria and by helping a senior student with odd jobs. The Dean of the College contributed by … Xuma’s education. Deeply impressed with…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
March to Pretoria with Mandela
… ANC PWV, SACP PWV, COSATU N-Tvl Wits, CAST, ICT, SADTU, COSAS, SASCO, TIC …
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS , Congress of South African Students COSATU , Congress …
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… When the Soweto Uprising took place in 1976, a wave of student protests swept through the country, and Rustenburg … grouping AZAPO, the United Democratic…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… targets is described below. United Democratic Front and affiliates The United Democratic Front (UDF), founded in … detained (about 15 000 in the last 5 years…
FOSATU granted non-racial exemptions
… State hastily granted non-racial exemptions to 6 FOSATU affiliates shortly after prohibiting FOSATU from raising …
Report on ANC/UDF delegations consultation, Harare, 3 - 4 December 1988
… African National Congress and the United Democratic Front affiliates in Harare to discuss concern over poor …
Remember June 16: victory is certain
… Text at the bottom of the poster, reads: Issued by /COSAS. …
The situation in Katlehong
… which has not affiliated to the United Democratic Front affiliates and other progressives. …
ArchiveCHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Congress of South African Trade Unions: Year Planner 1992
… dates highlighted. COSATU contact details and regional/affiliates phone numbers. Black and white photographs of …
EventSipho Mutsi dies in police custody
… and leader of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), Sipho Mutsi, died in police custody during …
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… the founding of new popular organisations and, through its affiliates, which numbered 648 by January 1984, 4 it … placed through its major educational…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
… political activities as she initially thought of him as a student and had entertained his interest in the African …
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… he continued with his writing in Lesotho. Mda, was a student at Peka High School, Lesotho, from 1965 and became a …
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
… change. Phyllis, a teacher, by day, and an evening-class student at Natal University (Non-European section) organised …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… Free State. Young Hendrik proved himself to be an able student at the Lutheran School in Wynberg and the Wynberg …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… or paying the school fees of an indigent but deserving student, a generosity he bestowed on dozens of students over …
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… front teeth was knocked out during a fight with an older student after he called Schwarz a “bloody Jew”. The …
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… dialogue to commemorate 40 years since the Soweto Student Uprising . The dialogue consists of a series of open letters between the generation of student…
Police put a clamp ban on statements by United Democratic Front and other bodies
… campaigns organised by the United Democratic Front or its affiliates …
EventThe fifteenth annual conference of Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) alters its constitution
… by no longer accepting any unregistered unions as TUCSA affiliates. Though Black trade unions could organise legally, …
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
His Majesty, King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II was born on 2 May 1938, in the Village of Salang in the Mountain District of Mokhotlong in the…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923,he was one of seven children in a rural family that was later…