... involved in student politics but it also acted as a political organization addressing critical national issues.  After the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the African National Congress (ANC) along with its militant wing Umkhonto we Sizwe, were banned by the South African government in 1960, most political activity was left to the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), an organization that ... ...

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... arrests through out the 1960s. In response, Umkhonto we Sizwe, or Spear of the Nation was formed on December 16, 1961. This organization, headed by Nelson Mandela, would become the militant branch of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. The Spear of the Nation and other liberation forces quickly had to go underground because they had all been deemed illegal. There was a period ... ...

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... begins now. George Erasmus, the leader of the Assembly of First Nations at the time, voiced the opinion of all Natives when he said: "Deal with us today because our militant leaders are already born. We cannot promise that you are going to like the kind of violent political action we can just about guarantee the next generation is going to ... ...

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