Apdusa, noun

/æpˈduːsə/
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Also APDUSA.
Acronym formed on African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa, an organization founded in 1961 as a break-away group of the NEUM.
1971 Rand Daily Mail 19 Feb.The detainees are members either of the Non-European Unity Movement or of a splinter group of that organisation, the African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa (Apdusa).
1972 Drum 15 Jan. 10The headquarters of Apdusa — the African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa — had gone into exile with its president, Isaac Bagani Tabata, when he fled to Zambia in 1964.
1984 R. Davies et al. Struggle for S. Afr. 313The Tabata leadership formed an individual membership organisation affiliated to the NEUM in January 1961. This was the African Peoples’ Democratic Union of South Africa (APDUSA).
1989 Poster, PietermaritzburgDon’t vote..issued by Apdusa.
1990 Graffiti, Cape TownViva APDYM. Viva APDUSA.
Acronym formed on African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa, an organization founded in 1961 as a break-away group of the NEUM.
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