Word: azayo
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...Rankuwa Township, 8 a.m. Thami Mcerwa, 27, president of the Azanian Youth Organization (AZAYO) -- Azania is what his movement would rename South Africa -- is preparing for another day's work in "the struggle." He spent the night as he usually does: in a four-room matchbox house in Soweto that he shares with his mother, brother and two sisters. Then he made the 50-mile journey north in his battered green Toyota to this black ghetto outside Pretoria...
Although Mcerwa's movement is relatively small and ineffective, at times there is more to it than cliches and slogans. The young radical grabbed headlines in January when he led a campaign against pop star Paul Simon for violating AZAYO's cultural boycott; during the singer's tour in South Africa, Mcerwa was arrested for the seventh time in 10 years after a hand-grenade explosion damaged the Johannesburg offices of a music company providing Simon with technical assistance. The police released Mcerwa seven days later pending further inquiries...
...Mcerwa has arrived back in Soweto for another organizational meeting. At a small dwelling that doubles as a comrade's home and an AZAYO branch office, he runs into Khosto Seathlolo, a leader of the 1970s' student protests who was sidelined by a long prison sentence. "He is one of our famous activists," Mcerwa explains. "No, Thami," Seathlolo replies. "You young guys are going to be the heroes...
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