List of Abbreviations

AAM Anti-Apartheid Movement

ANC African National Congress

AWB Afrikaner Weerstand Beweging

AZACTU Azanian Confederation of Trade Unions

AZAPO Azanian People’s Organisation

AZASO Azanian Students’ Organisation

BC Black Consciousness

BCM Black Consciousness Movement

BPC Black People’s Convention

CAHAC Cape Areas Housing Action Committee

CAYCO Cape Youth Congress

COSAS Congress of South African Students

COSATU Congress of South African Trade Unions

CUSA Council of Unions of South Africa

CWIU Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union

DEC Department of Education and Culture

DET Department of Education and Training

FCWU Food and Canning Workers’ Union

FOSATU Federation of South African Trade Unions

GWU General Workers Union

HNP Herstigte Nasionale Party

IDASA Institute for Democracy in South Africa (formerly Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa)

MAWU Metal and Allied Workers’ Union

MDM Mass Democratic Movement

MK Umkhonto we Sizwe

MPLA People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola

MRC Medical Research Council

NUSAS National Union of South African Students

NUTW National Union of Textile Workers

PAC Pan Africanist Congress

PWV Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vaal (today known as Gauteng)

RAWU Retail and Allied Workers’ Union

SAAWU South African Allied Workers’ Union

SACC South African Council of Churches

SACP South African Communist Party

SACTU South African Congress of Trade Unions

SASCO South African Students’ Congress

SASM South African Students’ Movement

SASO South African Students’ Organisation

SRC Student Representative Council

UCT University of Cape Town

UDF United Democratic Front

UWC University of the Western Cape

WRAB West Rand Administration Board

ZANU Zimbabwe African National Union

ZAPU Zimbabwe African People’s Union

 

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