HERMANUS BAREND DU PLESSIS
Your Honour, he was one of the main figures in COSAS in Port Elizabeth.  He was also responsible for inciting and politicisation of the black youth here in the black areas and also in the surrounding areas such as Uitenhage even as far as East London.
	As a consequence of this, there were continual schools boycotts with related burning of schools, arson committed on schools, stone throwing actions in the black townships and this also led to Trade Union strikes.