Introduction Interpreting the Character, Role, and Significance of SASO and SANSCO: A Conceptual Framework PART ONE: Black man, you are your own: The South African Students' Organization, 1968 to 1977 From Crisis to Stability to Crisis: The Apartheid Social Order and Black igher Education, 1960 to 1976-1977 SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness SASO on the Attack: Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action The Character, Role and Significance of SASO PART TWO: The Freedom Charter is our Beacon: The South African National Students' Congress, 1976/1977 to 1990 Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance: South Africa, 1967-1977 to 1990 SANSCO: The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation Creative Organizers rather than Powerful Speakers: Education as a Site of Struggle People's Education and People's Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO Conclusion Appendix 1: SASO Policy Manifesto Appendix 2: SANSCO Constitution and Policy Document Endnotes Bibliography