Wiki Page, IB HIST OF AMERICAS HL YR 2-B: What's in a name? South Africa Apartheid Unit Acronyms

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Within your notes, you should not only have these acronyms and their meanings, but what they actually did. This list is meant to be a starting reference. Make sure your notes explain what each of these parties or organizations did.

AMWU - African Mine Workers' Union

ANC - African National Congress

AP - Afrikaner Party

APTAC - Alexandra People's Transport Action Committee

BCM - Black Consciousness Movement

CODESA - Convention for a Democratic South Africa

COP - Congress of the People

CPSA - Communist Party of South Africa
*not to be confused with the SACP

FRAC - Franchise Action Council

GNP - Purified National Party

ICU - Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union

MK - Unkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation)

NAC - National Action Committee/Council

NP - National Party

NUSAS - National Union of South African Students

NVB - National Volunteers Board

PAC - Pan Africanist Congress

SACP - South African Communist Party
*not to be confused with the CPSA

SACTU - South African Congress of Trade Unions

SAIC - South African Indian Congress

SANNC - South African Native National Congress

SAP - South African Party

SASO - South African Students Association/Organization

UP - United Party