saths cooper was a student activist in the saso movement and lived in himalaya house with his family at that time. the cooper family apartment served as a convenient social space for saso leaders away from their office, and allowed interaction with struggle veterans who lived at himalaya house, including billy nair. during the course of countless discussions over meals and informal gatherings in this building and other places such as the alan taylor student residence, in the late 1960s and early 1970s a new political philosophy emerged. this black consciousness movement not only called for resistance to the policy of apartheid, freedom of speech, and more rights for south african blacks oppressed by the apartheid regime, but also black pride and a readiness to make blackness, rather than simple liberal democracy, the rallying point of unapologetically black organisations. "“yingakho ngakugwema ukuphawula ngakho ngesikhathi ngisesemzansi. ngiyaqala ukukhuluma ngakho. bengingafuni umlando engiwushiyile uhluke. kodwa futhi ngiyaliqonda ibhola lamazwe. yebo, i--al ahly iyamthanda usirino futhi isikhulumile nemamelodi sundowns ngokusemthethweni. ngeke ngidalule okuningi ngoba kuningi osekwenzekile. umengameli wesundowns (patrice motsepe) ubekade elapha ezobuka ichampions league. udanny jordan ungithumelele umyalezo engazisa ukuthi ukhona (umotsepe). uthumele nomyalezo wokungibongela. ngeke ungitshele ukuthi akuzange kukhulunywe ngosirino kulelo zinga. ngiyazi ngoba ngatshelwa.”"