ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations

AFCWU	African Food and Canning Workers’ Union
ANC	African National Congress
CCAWUSA	Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa
COSATU	Congress of South African Trade Unions
CUSA	Council of Unions of South Africa
DLB	Dead letter box
DPSC	Detainee Parents’ Support Committee
EDA	Environment and Development Agency
FCWU	Food and Canning Workers’ Union
FOSATU	Federation of South African Trade Unions
GAWU	General and Allied Workers’ Union
IAS	Industrial Aid Society
ILO	International Labour Organization
KAU	Kenya African Union
KPR	Kenya Police Reserve
LKB	Langeberg Kooperasie Beperk
MAWU	Metal and Allied Workers’ Union
MK	Umkhonto we Sizwe
NIS	National Intelligence Service
NUSAS	National Union of South African Students
SAAWU	South African Allied Workers’ Union
SACC	South African Council of Churches
SACP	South African Communist Party
SACTU	South African Congress of Trade Unions
SAP	South African Police
SASO	South African Students’ Organisation
SASPU	South African Students’ Press Union
SB	Special Branch or Security Branch (South African Police)
SRC	Students’ Representative Council
TRC	Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Note on terminology: South Africa’s history has left us with problematic racialised language – for example, ‘Coloured’. We are caught in an impossible trap when describing historical reality. But readers would be driven mad were I to put all the so-called population groups in quotation marks, so I have used none.