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UDF Poster ‘WE DEMAND:THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!’ by United Democratic Front (UDF), 1985, South Africa
… ‘WE DEMAND:THE PEOPLE SHALL GOVERN SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!’ by United Democratic Front (UDF), 1985, South Africa …
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At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t
… Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t …
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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee
… residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee …
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The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and
… assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and …
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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee
… residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee …
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Business Day reports that the Soweto delegation for ending the rent boycott has released a report, drawn up by Planact, a priva
… Day reports that the Soweto delegation for ending the rent boycott has released a report, drawn up by Planact, a priva …
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The Coloured schools’ boycott is joined by pupils at a number of Indian schools in Pretoria and Natal. Black Consciousness grou
… The Coloured schools’ boycott is joined by pupils at a number of Indian schools in …
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Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… in the student movement, including a national class boycott organised by the South African Students’ Organisation … campaign, Wilson Rowntree workers strike and consumer boycott, gave it rising cohesion, identity and power.Mohamed …
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Isaac Bangani Tabata
… Campaign was beginning, he published a new pamphlet, Boycott as a Weapon of Struggle, putting forth the case for …
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Benson Tsele
… the adoption of the Freedom Charter , the 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott, the 1959 Potato Boycott as well as the subsequent campaign against pass laws. …
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Theresa Solomon
… involved in several campaigns, such as the Consumer Boycott (to protest discrimination against workers), the Bus Boycott (to protest against bus fare increases), and was also involved in a massive …
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Elias Monare
… of rent by the local municipality, urging people to boycott municipal services including bus services and beer halls and threatening those who did not …
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Nkosinathi Benson Fihla
… non-racial sports groups and campaigned for a sporting boycott of South Africa. In 1954 to 1963 Fihla worked as a …
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Frances Baard
… formed an ANC Women's League in Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. In 1954 the two women were active in building up the … of Trade Unions (SACTU). She helped publicize the boycott and persuade the white farmers to alleviate the …
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Mhlabuvelile Hlamandana
… the ruler of the tribe.” Accused of promoting the boycott of white traders, Chief Hlamandana was arrested and …
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Michael Kitso Dingake
… of the People , We Stand by Our Leaders, the Alexandra Bus Boycott of 1957, Potato Boycott, Sophiatown removals, One Pound-a-Day, the Women …
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Ahmed Gora Ebrahim
… community behind the anti-South African sports boycott, and the early response to the campaign he initiated … was not welcoming for some time. Eventually the boycott became one of the sharpest thorns in South Africa's …
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Dennis Brutus
… (SANROC), which spearheaded the international sports boycott against apartheid South Africa. He was elected as … sports activists who regarded the lifting of the sports boycott in 1991 as premature. He was one of the first …
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Harold Athol Fugard
… this did not stop Fugard from supporting an international boycott against South Africa. The government later relaxed …
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Following decisions by the ‘Committee of 81’ on 16 July and 30 July 1980, Coloured students suspend their boycott of schools in
… 16 July and 30 July 1980, Coloured students suspend their boycott of schools in …
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The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River
… The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in …
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As the rent boycott continues, The Star suggests that there are four categories of people not paying rent: those refusing to pa
… As the rent boycott continues, The Star suggests that there are four …
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Teboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… issuing press statements, and calling for students to boycott classes, and wrote critically of the police’s actions …
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Alfred Msutu
… (‘trouble-makers’). The latter were involved in the boycott of schools, churches, state institutions and white …
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Nellie Jibiliza
… in politics. Jibiliza became particularly active in the 1950s as a member of African National Congress Women’s League … (CATAPAW) in 1957. Jibiliza also took part in the Potato Boycott in 1959. Following the passing of the Group Areas Act …
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United Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… organisation had been active in the ANC Women’s League in 1950s. For instance, Dorothy Zihlangu, Mildred Lesia and Dora … and interests of women in those areas. UWO initiated the bus boycotts in 1984 and the bread boycott in 1985. After joining the UDF, women leaders such as …
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UDF Poster ‘WE DEMAND: FEWER GUNS : HIGHER WAGES : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!’ by UDF, 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
… FEWER GUNS : HIGHER WAGES : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!’ by UDF, 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa …
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Maniben Sita
… campaign taken on by the TIC and UDF was the call for a boycott of the elections for the House of Delegates . This … down to the Transkei (now Eastern Cape ) on the special bus hired for the journey. On the way back to Johannesburg, Transvaal, the bus was stopped just outside Lenasia, Transvaal, and all the …
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Mary Moodley
… from SACTU and the ANC launched a countrywide potato boycott . Mary was among the activists who mobilised … to refrain from buying and stocking potatoes. The boycott was successful and called off in September 1959. This …
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Matthew Goniwe
… in Cradock as part of the ANC’s Defiance Campaign of the 1950s. In 1960 Jacques left to join the ANC in Maseru. He was … Elizabeth and Uitenhage held meetings which supported the boycott. By 11 March 1984, 4 236 pupils had joined the boycott. On 6 March 1984, Goniwe was appointed rural …
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