Students organised a demand that their colleges and universities divest, meaning that the universities were to cease investing in companies that traded or had operations in South Africa. At many universities, many students and faculty protested in order to force action on the issue. The first organised Anti-Apartheid Organization on University Campuses in the United States was CUAA founded at the University of California Berkeley by Ramon Sevilla. Sevilla was a principal organiser that had support from Nelson Mandela, with whom Sevilla was in communication while Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island as well as with The African National Congress (the ANC) for committing 196 acts of public violence against apartheid.