Congress of South African Students

A major Transvaal stay-away begins

📅 5 November 1984

Workers and students launched a two-day stay-away against repression, unequal education and apartheid local government, demonstrating growing coordination between workplace and township struggles.

The state suppresses the tenth anniversary of Soweto

📅 16 June 1986

Security forces detained activists and restricted gatherings, while communities commemorated the students killed in 1976 and renewed demands for liberation.