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Closing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.

Closing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980. Spoke on education within the framework of the conference theme: Exposing Total Strategy. Speaker made personal reference to his own banning orders which had prevented him from continuing his association with the National Union. Overview of history of protests by black students against the apartheid educational system.