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Search Resultsfor cosasMR NCUBE: He was involved in the struggle, he was an activist and he was the president of the Cosas at school. He disappeared. He was there and I was taking him to my elder brother's house in Winterveld and then I would take him back again to my elder brother in Katlehong. I used to take him ... ... in '68. ...(tape ends) ...tell me every time he went to the meetings and he would say to me can you please give me a shirt, either UDF T-shirt or COSAS T-shirt. But every time when he leaves home he would tell us about the church. He wasn't telling me everything but he used to tell me some ... ... it was controlled by the youth and not the students. Knowing exactly that during this period in 1986, the conflict was mostly between students in COSAS and others in the AZAPO ... ... particular, and killing them. The total full, calculated military aggression against the front line States, suppression of student bodies, that is COSAS and working class formations ... That time I was the Chairperson of COSAS, and my name was in the fore to an extend that in 1985 I had to disappear, trying to run away with my life, because people were after me and I had to walk by dark. Even the time I had to write examinations, it was difficult, but the principal Mr Hanavo ... That time I was the Chairperson of COSAS, and my name was in the fore to an extend that in 1985 I had to disappear, trying to run away with my life, because people were after me and I had to walk by dark. Even the time I had to write examinations, it was difficult, but the principal Mr Hanavo ... "Yes, I started in student organisations in 1983, and the organisation was COSAS. Later on I became very involved in matters concerning the community and I was involved in an organisation that ensured that there was no criminal activity in the area, as well as uplifting and organising the ... In the whole South Africa things were happening because our students had their organisations there was COSAS - one of those organisation, there was a very funny feeling during the location - people were emotional. I would say amongst the blacks and the Coloureds - they were all working together, ... What actually happened on this particular day - there was a march - a COSAS march and I knew nothing about this march and it started in Arena. I sat on the wall at the four-way stop in the township and we went back to Arena and that’s where I saw where the march came from. MR VAN JAARSVELD: For example it is the activities of the Cosas, Mamelodi Youth Organisation, Mamelodi Students' Congress, Congress of South African Students. I was also involved in the Peace Accord between PASO and COSAS. It starts sometimes at school, not at PAC level and then it rises up to PAC. We are involved in trying to sort out these things, and with the new dispensation it does help now because there is an understanding with that. We had to ... MS NDLOVU: Michael Ndlovu was an ANC member and was also the President of COSAS. He liked school very much and he was active in the ANC activities. On the date he got injured by a policeman called Alex. This policeman found him standing during break at the school yard. He hit him and he use to ... Applicant was recruited in Standard Six to join the Congress of South African Students (COSAS). In 1989 he left the country to join the African National Congress (ANC) in exile, returning in December 1991 when the armed struggle had been suspended. He was a member of Cosas, that is the student movement that existed at that time. And from there he was involved in ANC activities. I'm not aware of the issues that he was involved in, in MK operations. As far as I'm concerned, he was a very young man and a very small boy, or he is a small boy, ... contrary to the source that you claim that you had, came to Kimberly for Operation Barcelona because he had to mediate between that problem, between COSAS and the Youth League - nothing about the grenade. And then I said to you: "Somebody came, I cannot recall exactly is it Thabo because the ... MR MARTINS: Well, I was an active member of the ...(indistinct) Youth League. I was a member of COSAS too back then. Furthermore we were involved in a number of UDF and mass democratic related campaigns, political campaigns etc etc. You take part in the day to day campaigns of the UDF and ... DR RANDERA: Dominic I want to come back to this day that you were shot. You say you are a member of the ANC Youth League. So does that mean you were an underground member at the time because the ANC Youth League was banned. Or were you a member of the UDF or Cosas? Youth became more involved, they wanted to lead the ANC, not only the Youth League, but the ANC itself, you know. The Women also came in and so on, COSAS, student bodies and so on, finally there were tensions between the Civic activists or the Civic Organisation and the ANC, but we still could, ... ... I was just released, at the time I was just released from Robben Island and I didn't know as to exactly what was going on. Sefiso was a member of COSAS. The guerillas were not part of my duties. Sefiso did this by chance, just helping them out for a while. We knew that it was just temporary, ... B MBALO: Yes, I can explain. In 1993 the COSAS asked that students should go and march in town. Then on Friday there is a river in our town, on a Friday there were many policemen beyond the river stopping people not to go to town until twelve o'clock when the school children would be taking ... |