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… Council (TASC) which, in 1981, led a very successful boycott against the South African Indian Council (SAIC) …

… going to visit his mother he was forced to travel on a bus specifically for ‘Coloured’ persons. Furthermore, he …

… vigorously for the total rejection these new bills, a boycott of the NRC and the building of a national unity of …

… longest running plays. In line with the then cultural boycott against South Africa, Govender refused invitations to …

… and to pressure countries that flouted the resolutions to boycott the apartheid regime. When Imam Haroon , who had been …

… 15, he was detained without trial for his role in a school boycott. The following year he was arrested again and charged …

… had heeded the African National Congress’s (ANC) call to boycott government schools. Levy also became prominent in the …

… by Oliver Tambo. The meeting decided to hold a potato boycott in protest against Bethal farmers' treatment of … Ebrahim concluded that the non-violent struggle of the 1950s had come to an end and new strategies would have to be …

… Trade Unions (SACTU's)  most successful achievement in the 1950s and 1960s. Demanding a legislated, national minimum … the impetus for the prolonged campaign, was the Alexandra Bus Boycott of 1957, a spontaneous demonstration of mass …

… its affiliates continue to encourage African workers to boycott the machinery of the Native Labour Act. Lucy Mvubelo … (SACTU) Vice-President. 7 January, Beginning of Alexandra Bus Boycott. 4 March, South African Congress of Trade Unions … have to withdraw from the conference. 1961 Port Elizabeth Bus Boycott. Memory Vakalisa is elected secretary of the …

… would elect four members at separate elections. In the 1950s, the NP came to dominate the white vote, and it used … second goal, it undertook a range of ventures including a bus boycott in the Cape in 1954 to protest against racial …

… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - 1957-58: … of resurgence of mass struggle were the launching of a bus boycott in Evaton in July 1955, and the burning of passes by …

… SA Soccer Federation in their sponsorship, he organised a boycott of the product, under the banner of the Committee …

… her working life helping her mother clean houses. In the 1950s, she lived in Sophiatown when it was a vibrant place … despite the fact that it technically violated the cultural boycott of South Africa. After Graceland, Miriam was in great …

… African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) resolved to boycott. He joined the South African Coloured People’s … Since none of them had passports, they travelled by bus to Mopane and then walked the rest of the way across the …

…  issuing press statements, and calling for students to boycott classes, and wrote critically of the police’s actions …

… African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO) organises bus boycott in Cape Town to protest against the introduction of … limited government responsibilities. 7 January, An African bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg … General South African History Timeline: 1950s …

… aftermath of World War II. Consequently, throughout the 1950s unrest in African, Coloured and Indian communities … reactions to apartheid measures. Foremost among these were bus boycotts that were responses to increased transport … militant forms of protest, including “immediate and active boycott, strike, civil disobedience, and non-co-operation,” …

… joined the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1950s becoming involved in its activities. For instance, he was extensively involved in the Alexander Bus Boycotts in 1944 and after joining the ANC. In 1955 he …  Two later he was arrested for taking part in the Potato boycott which was organized to expose the plight of black …

… He married, and settled in Jabavu, Soweto . During the 1950s, Sejake was a leading member of the South African … Sejake joined the ANC and was active throughout the 1950s in its increasingly radical demonstrations, strikes and … unionists in Ireland and South Africa; to get people to boycott South African goods and, to pressurise the British …

… Movement was the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which struggled for equal rights for … Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. A boycott follows, and bus segregation is declared …

… tactics. An early sign of this change in tactics was the boycott of buses in Montgomery , Alabama from December 1955 … a seat that was reserved for whites in the front of a city bus. The incident received unprecedented nationwide … started, a young African-American minister boarded a bus in Montgomery , sat where he chose and so stepped to the …

… intense debate, influenced by Tambo’s guidance, staged a boycott of classes in protest. In 1942, he was unanimously … the Programme of Action but Xuma rejected the principle of boycott tactics suggested by members of the ANCYL. Tambo and … South Africa and called for trade unions to help the ANC’s boycott call. From here, he flew to London where he was met …

… an active role in the ANC's Defiance Campaign in the early 1950s, as the organisation in Natal had not been developed … detained. ANC campaigns at that time included the potato boycott against Bethal farmers in the Transvaal who were …

… Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish factory strike and the red meat … in the workplace which intersected with school boycotts, bus boycott, product boycotts and civic mobilisation. … out to be national consumer boycott for seven months.  Bus Boycott On 3 June 1980 protest against higher bus fares …

… known as the University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) student boycott , Mayat and Fatima Meer were on the parents’ …

… In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she began to assume a leadership role – both in the ANC … a White person could not share the same row of seats in a bus. A White person should also not be left standing while a … Then other leaders used her story to begin a huge bus boycott. One of these were Martin Luther King Jr. He and the …