COSAS President is detained

COSAS members at Emma Sathekge's funeral.COSAS members at Emma Sathekge's funeral.

Date: 24 December, 1979

The Security Police detained the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (COSAS ), which had become one of the biggest anti-apartheid student organisations in South Africa.

References

  • Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.)
  • www.sahistory.org.za/pages/index/menu.htm