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Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… away from a place and to forbid them from coming back. Boycott Refuse to use something or to deal with someone. If you boycott a bus, you refuse to ride on…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… charged in terms of Section 16 of the Immorality Act. The boycott of Fattis and Monis products in May in support of the Food and Cannings Workers Union was…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… the Bantu World, Xuma calls on African children to end the boycott against the Bantu Education Act and return to school. … 1957 1 February: In an attempt to…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… passes. Thousands of passes were handed as part of a boycott and over 700 protestors were arrested. In 1920 …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… close to her heart for the rest of her life. [3] In the 1950s she married Amos Mswane, and they had four children. … effort of hers. [10] That same year,…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… School system had mostly failed because of Dutch parents’ boycott of it. In the Eastern Cape it was better received, … predominant political group in the…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… boarders” required to travel to and from School by Bus and Train each day, instead they were taught in the …
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 3 - The Rise … end to white domination, by means of "immediate and active boycott,…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… associated themselves with the non-racial policy of the 1950s Congress Alliance. The Transvaal Indian Congress was … The Committee actively campaigned, with…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… 11) “Bantu Education or the Street” The first half of the 1950s was the formative period of apartheid and the … against it and in 1954, with the act’s…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… had limited participation in political activities of the 1950s. It openly threw its support behind the demonstrations … The police were deployed in townships…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - Division … support for the movement was slipping away. A magnificent bus boycott,…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… March 1922 the Aliwal North newspaper reported a 'general boycott' of shops in Herschel, mainly by women who 'organise … paid for wheat bought from local…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… a member of the Communist Party, Bram gives support to the bus boycott of Alexandra Township residents protesting the one-penny increase in bus fares. 1945 2…
PlaceDoornfontein, Johannesburg
… has been situated at 3 Gordon Terrace since the late 1950s. The Area has undergone substantial Transport Renewal … with the introduction of a key route of…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… resettled there. 1957 The ANC organizes the Alexandra Bus Boycott campaign. 15 September, Riots takes place in Dube. … than 70 Black schools, mostly in the…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… as a branch of the UDF in order to deal with the cultural boycott and helped organize the tasks of the Cultural …
Vella Pillay
… considerable significance in this period was the 'British Boycott of S.African products' campaign, largely in response …
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… involvement of Inkatha. There was no call for a consumer boycott, although riots and uprisings did take place. … and called for another "Black Christmas"…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… Exile ) edited by Segal. The first was an account of the bus boycotts that began in Alexandra, a black township north … down to Port Elizabeth: “Through the…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… by the Congress Alliance, the Treason Trial of 1956, the bus boycotts, and the rise of the PAC. [41] The political …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… participation and international sport. The sporting boycott became effective in the 1980's and probably hurt the … South Africans. There was also an academic…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… Indian Congress (SAIC) and the COD called for a total boycott of UTC products. This demonstration of solidarity … to reports, these workers were told there…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… with the students of Soweto and decide to embark on a boycott of classes. 6 August, The Hewat Training College in … August, Pupils at Alexander Sinton High…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… and Rick Turner but also those who had been pivotal in the 1950s such as Trevor Huddleston and Oliver Tambo. Most … against a backdrop of school boycotts,…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - … of the Liberal Party. It happened again at the time of the bus boycotts, the…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… out, they used to walk across the hostel on their way to bus and taxi ranks along Golden Highway. More importantly … Settlement came from Boipatong Township…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… such as Mrs Annie Sidyiyo, they decided to launch a total boycott of the trading stores. Similar action took place in … tried to purchase from the stores …
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… in 1943-44. He also played a key role in the Alexandra Bus Boycotts of 1943-44. He got in trouble for leading … and radical transformation of the ANC in the…