1981

From Greenlevel.org

Anti Republic Day Rally, Jammie Hall, 26 May 1981. Spot Jenny Schreiner, Martin Nicol, Keith Gottshalk, Richard Goode and many more in the audience. [From Tony Karon: What I remember most about that afternoon was that Andrew Boraine broke a taboo by becoming the first Nusas president to shout "Amandla" and raise his fist; it was time to crank things up a little. But Andrew was worried that the gesture would be so shocking that the audience would be too stunned to respond. So he came to me and a couple of others to prime us to be ready to scream back "nga Wethu!" Which we did. And then we didn't see Andrew again for months, because he was detained that night...]

Wantu Zenzile, COSAS President, addressing Anti Republic Day Rally, Jammie Hall, 1981. Laurie Nathan, SRC President, ? Black Sash, Andrew Boraine, Prof Mike Savage on the platform. Wantu and Andrew were detained shortly after the meeting.

26 May 1981 - Republic Day flags burnt outside Jammie Hall after Anti-Republic Day Rally.

27 May 1981 - 48 UCT Students arrested outside Good Hope Centre at picket of International Meat Bosses Congress during Meat Workers Strike.

[From Tony Karon, pictured just above the s's in "bosses", just to the left of Janet Cherry although I was usually, I think, to the right of her: What were we thinking? Students across the country had risen up over the anti-Republic day protests, our own leaders had been detained, and instead of taking that campaign out into the streets, here we were protesting, with no clear demands or purpose, about a strike that had ended a year earlier. Talk about missing the point, even if it was an excellent adventure...]

[From Andrew Boraine: Hey, Tony, here's a cheeky one for you, spotted painted on a wall in Obs in 1981:]