NATIONAL UNION OF SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS

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Banned

Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to explain its stand on the banning of eight persons, seven of whom were office bearers of the National Union of South African Students.

These bannings are wilful

Biographical sketches of eight student leaders banned in February 1973.

Action for democracy: 1986 NUSAS theme publication
NUSAS talks to the ANC

Subtitled: Reportback on meeting between the National Union of South African Students and the African National Congress held from Sunday, 31 March to Tuesday, 2 April [1986] in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Should NUSAS talk to the ANC?

A pamphlet issued by the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) at the start of their campaign to find out whether students supported NUSAS representatives meeting with the African National Congress (ANC).

The Universities and the State, 1959-1969

Pamphlet to affirm the University of the Witwatersrand's continuing opposition to the Extension of University Education Act, 1959, which legislated the loss of academic freedom at South African Universities.

Interview with Steve Biko

Oral interview, in Durban, with Steve Biko, on the rise of Black Consciousness, the growing resistance of students by 1972 and the roles of organisations such as NUSAS and SASO.

Interview with John Daniel

Oral interview, conducted in Mbabane, with John Daniel, a student leader at the University of Natal who twice served as president of the National Union of South African Students (1966 and 1968).

Minutes of the 49th Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, November 30 - December 3, 1972

Minutes of the 49th Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 30 November - 3 December 3 1972. Includes resolutions passed.

Memorandum on the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). Part one: NUSAS the trade union

Memorandum on benefits provided by the National Union of South African Students to students. These included medical scholarships, a Prison Education Fund and a loan fund, and travel opportunities.

Memorandum presented by National Union of South African Students to the Select Committee on Certain Organisations - August 1972

Official memorandum presented by the National Union of South African Students to the Select Committee on Certain Organisations, including NUSAS (the Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry). The structure, activities and history of NUSAS are described.

Memorandum to the Shlebusch [sic] Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organisations on the paper presented to the NUSAS seminar at Botha's Hill by Jonty Driver

Personal comments to the Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry into Certain Organisations by Paul Pretorius, President of the National Union of South African Students, on a paper that had been presented at a NUSAS National Seminar in 1964.

Facts 2: Covering The Wages Commissions: how they started

Fact sheet giving information about the origin, purpose and activities of the Wages Commissions which had been established on the five campuses affiliated to the National Union of South African Students.

Memorandum on the raising of affiliation fees of the National Union of South African Students

Memorandum giving reasons for the recent increase in affiliation fees to the National Union of South African Students. The projects and expenses of the National Union are listed, as well as the benefits available to students.

Summary of activities taken against the Christian Institute and Spro-Cas between August 1973 and January 1974

Chronology of the Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organizations, which became a parliamentary Commission of Enquiry known as the Schlebusch Commission. Includes the background to the charges laid by the State against Ravan Press in November 1978

An analysis of the interim report of the Commission of Inquiry

An analysis of the Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry, including the establishment of the Commission and the operation of the Commission. Incomplete document.

Paper on SASO

Confidential paper from the President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) to the members of the National Council of the NUSAS, discussing the relationship between NUSAS and the SASO (South African Students Organisation).

Communique as drawn up by the 1969 SASO Conference

The communique discusses the need for contact and communication amongst non-white universities and colleges. It also discusses the relationship with other national student bodies like NUSAS.

NUSAS and student unity
Letter from Clive Nettleton to various organisations

Letter from Clive Nettleton, Vice President of National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), to various organisations about a report back on further development at the University College of the North, Turfloop, after a visit to establish contact with the Rector and students.

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