<prompt> Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Panguva iyoyo akanga ava kutsigira kurwisa rusaruraganda. Pachivande akapfuurira kuita unyanzvi hwokuramba. VaGordon vakashanda paUniversity of Witwatersrand WITS Students Representative Council SRC kubva muna 1982 kusvika muna 1987 seMutungamiriri weVadzidzi veVadzidzi. Akatungamirira University SRC Administration kubva muna 1982 kusvika muna 1987 mune zvematongerwe enyika zvikuru semutongi wezvematongerwe enyika, achivandudza migumisiro yeSouth African Police uye SAP Security Branch kutyisidzira, chisimba uye kudzvinyirira kuvadzidzi veWITS. Munguva yechipiri yakaziviswa yeSouth African State of Emergency muna 19856 akashandiswa, pakati pezvimwe zvinhu, semutumwa pakati pevakuru vakuru veyunivhesiti nemumiriri wavo wepamutemo kuendesa magwaro nemaoko kuna Brigadier Jan Coetzee, mukuru wemapurisa paProtea Police Station mu  <response>: Soweto, akamirira vadzidzi vakawanda vakasungwa. Ikoku kwakanga kuri apo Soweto yose namataundi makumi matatu namashanu munyika yose zvakatorwa namapoka akachena okuchengetedza eSA. 