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ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… 1969 after Black students broke away from the White-led student federation, the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), and formed their own…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… TABLE 1 Targets of repression United Democratic Front and affiliates The United Democratic Front (UDF), founded in … detained (about 15 000 in the last 5…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… exam to the Edinburgh University. Dr Goonam was a fellow student. 1929 - Admitted to the medical school of the Edinburgh University. 1930-34 - The years of…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… of linking literature and politics. Parry was a student at the University of Cape Town from 1949 to 1952, but …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… connections in Oberlin to find more suitable work for the student. Varushka Jardine (SAHO), Lulu Dube (centre) and …
ArticleFederation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW)
… detainees, support the youth in their fight for democratic Student Representative Councils (SRCs), to fight against …
PlaceSecunda
… in the Gert Sibande Region. She was an active member of COSAS and SAYCO and was the first victim to be killed while …
Cosatu special congress, Day Two: Numsa, Vavi walloped by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 15 July 2015, South Africa
… Numsa still harboured to make a comeback. He called on affiliates to free themselves from enslavement by a union … that was outside of Cosatu. He said unions…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… Organisation (SASO). Conscious of the limitations of a student-oriented organisation, the BCM subsequently developed … labour’ – the BPC was the ‘adult’…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… a new role to as the symbolic mother to this burgeoning student movement. In May 1976, just a few weeks before the famous student uprising in Soweto, Winnie…
Chapter 1 - Interpreting the Character, Role and Significance of SASO AND SANSCO
… from the fields of social theory, social movement theory, student politics and comparative student activism and South African political economy. The … though…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… had arisen in the late 1960s among students who formed the student body the South African Students Organisation (SASO). … was the Black Conscience leader,…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… of the city. In addition to the COSATU head office, most affiliates transferred either their head or branch offices to … declared unsafe for use and HARWU,…
ArchiveUDF Campaign Manual - Section B: "How We Are Struggling - The Methods"
… and campaigns 42 UDF Launch 44 UDF Executive, patrons & affiliates 45 UDF the road ahead 46 Cartoons 47 UDF working …
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… revolution of 1959 and the 1968 Paris ‘moment’ of worker-student struggles; Chinese socialism seemed to be …
EventLord Baden-Powell’s sister, Agnes, establishes the Girl Guides Movement
The Girl Guide movement shares its roots with the Boy Scout movement that was founded by Baden-Powell during the South African War of 1899-1902. During the war…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… was confronting the ravages of apartheid and the Soweto student revolts while trying to co-ordinate underground …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… By 1959 Sactu had a membership of 46,000 in 35 affiliates. But state repression saw many Sactu leaders and … and withheld recognition if unions continued…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa, including the…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… and the Food and Canning Workers’ Union were major affiliates that helped run successful protests, giving women … , and the Food and Canning Workers’ Union…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… training camps and safe houses on their territory. Student anger and grievances against Bantu education and the … response of the government through a…
Lerato Maduna
… Rotterdam 2007.MTN City Creative Award nomination 2007-student category- exhibition- Museum Africa. Production …
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… anti-Tricameral Parliament campaign that the UDF and its affiliates ran, which involvedhouse visits, mass meetings and …
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… on which SANSCO moved and the conditions that shaped student mobilisation, organisation and activity. The focus is … students. Moreover, the concern is not…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Glossary
American Dream: The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.[1] …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a White, student organisation, served an important role in unifying and voicing student protests against…
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
… worker leaders present here today - representing the 17 affiliates, with a combined membership of more than … this requires the close co-operation and…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… students in the anti-apartheid movement and its campaigns. Student action began in Britain as early as the late 1940s, … and the movement against the Vietnam…
Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… For the student Discussion Questions Who was the founder of the Mali …
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… his apartment on the way in from the airport. References: Student Movements in South Africa: A study of three student movements illustrating student problems…