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General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Students' Council of South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is convened, where the organisation takes a bolder stance. The organisation encourages…
ArchiveBanning and intimidation: list of recommended tactics
… SASO memorandum deals with proposed methods of infiltration … other organisations; how to deal with infiltration into SASO and how to deal with bannings and…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… of seven of his fellow workers at CDA, who were also leaders of the South African Allied Workers Union (SAAWU), … Ibid. [18] Richards, N. 2017. List: Top 5…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… quite willingly. Early on the 21st the local PAC leaders first gathered in a field not far from the … and the formation of South African Students…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… of the 1970s. It is therefore possible that the student leaders were charged with offenses relating to their … to the work of the South African Students…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… African Indian delegation consisted of all their executive leaders including PR Pather. In December 1946 the majority … and the TIC should not remain silent…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… one year’. Chamberlain got Milner to agree that three Boer leaders exiled in Europe –Fischer, Wolmarans and Wessels – be … in towns were authorized…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… on 21 March 1960. Since most political and cultural leaders were either jailed or exiled from that time, the BCM …
BiographyJohn Collins
… Walter Sisulu , Albert Lithuli and other African political leaders. In 1956, Collins got a telegram from Ambrose Reeves, …
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… of the People (COD) and the subsequent ‘Hands Off Our Leaders Campaign’ in opposition to the 1956 Treason Trial . …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… were driven underground. By mid-1961 Congress leaders had come to the realisation that non-violent methods … organisation, the South African Students'…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… record and would add to the country’s further isolation. SASO, the South African Students’ Movement (SASM) and the … (SSRC) were defunct by the end of 1977…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… renaissance of the Black Consciousness era. By 1970, the SASO Newsletter was also publishing poetry and literary … aspect of the liberation struggle featured…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… 1968 the all-black South African Students' Organisation (SASO) was formed with Biko as its first president.' When we … or of the system of Bantu education'…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… Ahead Foundation, started in 1984 together with community leaders such as advocate Dikgang Moseneke, Archbishop Desmond …
ArchiveThe Non-Republic of South Africa: what it means for the Black man
… This SASO pamphlet sets out the SASO view of the Nationalists' Republic of South Africa. …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Lovedale was started by missionaries and many future leaders of South Africa, including Mbeki’s father, had … big city and its vitality. He met Nelson…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… of the National Union of African Youth in 1939. These leaders sought to “challenge Championship and Dubeism and … with violence: ‘The action was not planned…
ArchiveStudents, politics, Black power, new movements and new appraisals
… A SASO pamphlet containing the historical background of the … of Executive members, the 1971 programme of events and a SASO message of student unity …
ArchiveIntroduction to Formation School
… This SASO memorandum sets out the path for students to follow in … their quest for national liberation, for discussion at the SASO Formation School, Edendale…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. Its faculty included many leaders and activists in the liberation movement such as …
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… of what became known as the SA Students’ Organisation (Saso). I was invited to be one of the speakers. It was then … was to relieve Steve of the burden of…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… argued a case of consistency saying that different leaders within the ANC had made statements about other … Visibly disgruntled with the charges brought…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… was prepared to train them in modern warfare. The ANC leaders undertook to suspend all their campaigns and mass …
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… the same time called together a group of African opinion leaders and thinkers to draft an African response to the …
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
… messages from the banned African National Congress (ANC) leaders imprisoned on Robben Island to their colleagues in …
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… custody.At a memorial service held on December 17, 1977, leaders of the Communist Party, The South African Congress of …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… members who formed the South African Student Organisation(SASO) in 1968. SASO was formed as a break-away student movement of the … terrorism. The activists…
BiographySimon Gqubule
Reverend Dr Simon Gqubule was born on 18 February 1928 at a place near Cookhouse, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His family did not have a lot of money; his…