Mamphela Ramphele: A Passion for Freedom. Mamphela Ramphele

very smart at the time.

      We used to have parties on weekends at which we drank beer and sat around in the smoke-filled room of one of the members of the group, talking politics, listening to Malcolm X’s speeches on tape, as well as those of Martin Luther King Jr, discussing banned books which were secretly circulated among friends, sharing jokes, and also singing and dancing. Our weekends were carefree and full of fun. We became welded together into a sharing and caring community. At the beginning of each year younger people who were new students joined the community – Malusi Mpumlwana, Keith Mokoape and Seolo Solombela were the most notable additions to our group.

10 SASO was founded in July 1969, with Steve Biko as its first president.

11 Preliminary year (popularly called Prelim) was used as an academic support year for those students who did not have satisfactory matriculation mathematics and science grades to be admitted directly into first year.