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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…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
… Campaign was beginning, he published a new pamphlet, Boycott as a Weapon of Struggle, putting forth the case for …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
BiographyMhlabuvelile Hlamandana
… the ruler of the tribe.” Accused of promoting the boycott of white traders, Chief Hlamandana was arrested and …
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…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… issuing press statements, and calling for students to boycott classes, and wrote critically of the police’s actions …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…