A meeting in Windhoek on 13 January, the Namibian Black Students Organisation (NABSO) decided to boycott all schools falling under the Bantu Education Department of the South African government, "until the Bantu Education system is scrapped". In a statement, NABSO pointed out that recent concessions and improvements in the apartheid education system, announced in Pretoria, were "completely inadequate". Mr. Zedekia Mujoro, the organisation's President, said that NABSO members were determined to go without education until their schooling measured up to international standards and "put the black man in a position to solve the problems of this community". He estimated that the boycott would affect 60% of black pupils in secondary schools throughout Namibia, due to re-open the following week after the Christmas holidays.
[Additional reports on student arrests and the Nama teachers' strike omitted for brevity]
