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BiographyJoseph Fansio Mati
… farms, Mati became involved in organising the potato boycott of 1959. He was also involved in organising bus boycotts, but Mati’s main focus, as he stated in…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
… in this period. Nokwe was involved with the ANC's economic boycott in 1959, as well as the planning of an anti-pass … ANC and with attempts to affect a…
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
… During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native …
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
… writing the Charter. However, on the way to Kliptown her bus was stopped by police and sent back. She next planned to … 1956 in Pretoria , but was once…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… ruling class how best to oppress the people. By the late 1950s, Essak decided the he had enough of the Education … In the polemic which wracked the UM in the…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… laid down the foundation for the ANC’s campaigns in the 1950s. At the same time, rapid migration into urban areas … the ANC inspired the several…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… in the student movement, including a national class boycott organised by the South African Students’ Organisation … campaign, Wilson Rowntree workers strike…
BiographyBenson 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. …
BiographyTheresa Solomon
… involved in several campaigns, such as the Consumer Boycott (to protest discrimination against workers), the Bus Boycott (to protest against bus fare…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
… Campaign was beginning, he published a new pamphlet, Boycott as a Weapon of Struggle, putting forth the case for …
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 …
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 …
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 …
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
… non-racial sports groups and campaigned for a sporting boycott of South Africa. In 1954 to 1963 Fihla worked as a …
BiographyFrances 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…
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 …
BiographyMhlabuvelile Hlamandana
… the ruler of the tribe.” Accused of promoting the boycott of white traders, Chief Hlamandana was arrested and …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… issuing press statements, and calling for students to boycott classes, and wrote critically of the police’s actions …
BiographyDennis Brutus
… (SANROC), which spearheaded the international sports boycott against apartheid South Africa. He was elected as … sports activists who regarded the lifting…
BiographyAhmed 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…
BiographyMichael 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 …
UDF Poster ‘WE DEMAND: FEWER GUNS : HIGHER WAGES : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!’ by UDF, 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
… /we_demand_fewer_guns_higher_wages_udf_support_the_consumer_boycott_2.htm … FEWER GUNS : HIGHER WAGES : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!’ by UDF, 20/08…
BiographyHarold Athol Fugard
… this did not stop Fugard from supporting an international boycott against South Africa. The government later relaxed …
BiographyNellie 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…
BiographyAlfred Msutu
… (‘trouble-makers’). The latter were involved in the boycott of schools, churches, state institutions and white …
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… horrific accident at Park Station, Johannesburg’s central bus and train terminus. The accident’s victims were flooding … in the Federation of South African…
News 24 announces that SA broke the Zimbabwean boycott in March this year. Armscor has sold spare parts to the value of more th
… News 24 announces that SA broke the Zimbabwean boycott in March this year. Armscor has sold spare parts to …
ArticleUnited 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…
BiographyManiben 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 …
BiographyMary 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…