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MR NGO: I was a COSAS member and an executive member as a secretary. As we were going ahead with the duties of COSAS we were charged with public violence and we were arrested and kept at Fontein with Petrus Oliphant and Oupa Makubalo. As we were there we were beaten up by the police and they ...

people were killed. During 1984 he was involved in petrol-bombing the homes of prominent Eastern Cape activists including Sipho Hashi; he murdered a COSAS member who called him a spy; and then worked with Thamsanqa Linda, who was running a vigilante group (Linda was known as "Project Tommy" by the ...

In the late 1970s he joined the then Port Elizabeth Black People's Congress ("PEBCO"); the Congress of South African Students ("COSAS") and other anti-apartheid organisations which operated in the area.  He was very much involved in their activities and campaigns which entailed inter alia ...

... the applicant was arrested with a number of other youths and members of the said organisations who included Zola Mtantsi the then Chairperson of COSAS in Port Elizabeth. They were charged with public violence. At the criminal trial he testified against them and they were convicted and ...

THALITHA SEKHAULELO: : Ronnie is my sister's child. He was a member of COSAS at that time there was a middle school which was recently opened by Zacherema Katleng. At that time Ronnie was not at school because of certain reasons. On the 10th of February at that school there was an unrest by ...

... Students Movement. The other thing which made us to have interest was in AZASAM was. It seems this AZASAM organisation was not oppressed as COSAS was because even if we did not have many ideas about COSAS. So we decided lastly of frequenting the offices in Johannesburg. ...

MR DU PLESSIS: Yes, Mr Schoon I accept what you say the youth, COSAS, we know COSAS played a role and certain youth organisations played a role.

an unimaginable repression by the state. The spirit of resistance gained momentum until the early eighties. This was the period of the formation of Cosas and later the Alexandra Youth Congress in 1983. ...

... 18 and 19. No, no, it was late 1979 I think, and then my active involvement started in 1980. And then I was one of the people who established COSAS in Bloemfontein, Mangani Youth Congress. We first - before we had Mangani Youth Congress we had Mangani Cultural Organisation. That's how we ...

A typical testimony would come out of a young person - for example, I remember a story of a young COSAS person who came away from such camps having discovered faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, with eyes shining and saying: "I used to be a member of COSAS, I used to be involved in the struggle ...

Both Applicants testified under oath at the hearing. The first Applicant was a member of the Congress of South African Students ("COSAS") and a member of the Soweto Youth Congress, both organisations affiliated to the United Democratic Front ("DUF"). The second Applicant was the publicity ...

... There had been a stay-away from school in 1984, 1985 and 1986 but he was then instructed to return to school as a result of a decision taken by COSAS. In 1989 violence started, instigated by people he called Ama-Vigilante, who were a group of people working with the police and who had ...

... Supreme Court on 21 February 1994. The offences of which he was convicted arose out of a conflict between the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), which is affiliated to the African National Congress, and the Pan Africanist Students' Organisation (PASO) which is affiliated to the Pan ...

MRS SOYA: He was a member of the COSAS.

At a meeting of members of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), it was reported that one Lerhata Thomas Phola, a local school head master, was suspected of being an informer. No specific allegations of what exactly Phola had done were made, but ...

MR MANTHATA: Ephraim, were you the first President of Cosas?

their education. These are the battles of COSAS. They should be, people should

MRS MOHLOMI: At school he was a member of Cosas.

ADV SANDI: Was she a member of COSAS or any other student organisation?

REVD XUNDU: Now you say Vuyani was a COSAS activist?