school boycotts

Explanation
School boycotts originated in the Western Cape in April 1980 and spread to several other regions in South Africa. Grievances initially concerned the standard and quality of education but these grew into wider political protest. Street protests and police actions resulted in widespread violence. In the Cape, police shootings led to over 40 deaths. In the Orange Free State, police made use of force and firepower to break up crowd demonstrations, often resulting in injury and, in some cases, death. In Natal, boycotting pupils in KwaMashu defied Chief Buthelezi's calls to return to school, resulting in clashes between pupils and Inkatha supporters. These boycotts allegedly led to an increased exodus of youth from the country to join the ANC. Towards the end of 1985 , the UDF adopted a campaign to make the townships ungovernable. Educational institutions and trade unions became key sites of revolutionary activity. School boycotts and strikes were transformed into scenes of violent conflict and bloodletting. A state of emergency was declared in July and extended in October. It continued until the first democratic election in 1994.

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 2 (24 May 2000)

... was a so-called mass rolling action, which was a programme designed to render the country ungovernable, by means of stay-away actions, boycotts, school boycotts and so forth and in order to counter this, there would have to be a contingency plan in order to determine how we would go about in ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Cradock, Day 2 (10 February 1997)

I am enormously humbled by the opportunity to bring to the Commission and to the people of Cradock, these statements. They were taken during the school boycotts in 1984 and the beginning of 1985 here in Cradock, in Port Alfred and in kwaNOBUHLE in Uitenhage.

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 4 (09 April 1999)

... They had a mission at Tweefontein and I knew that the youth met there in the evenings. Prince James addressed them there, this was during the school boycotts and this Priest, Shaun O'Leary was also detained at Groblersdal by the Security Police. I immediately realised when I saw the papers ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Empangeni (04 November 1996)

What sort of tension was there? Were there riots, school boycotts, political organizations fighting against each other? What was actually happening? --- I think it was some riots, but I think there were some criminal elements in it. It started off with political organizations fighting each ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Newcastle (11 September 1996)

That was in 1985, and you were involved in class boycotts because of the quality of the education which was being given in black schools at that time, as well as what you saw as corruption from the school leadership. --- Quite correct.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Durban (30 August 1996)

And of course he was involved in the school boycotts in the early eighties, and there again one of the principal aims of the boycotts were to rid us of this Afrikaans, which went far beyond just being an ordinary or a normal language, but of oppression and of hatred.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Welkom (08 October 1996)

... away and what was happening at the time they went to join Umkhonto weSizwe? --- At the time there was a disruption in the schools. There were school boycotts and they decided the skip the country and go to join Umkhonto ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Durban (25 October 1996)

... be summed up in one of the most popular slogans of the time, "Asinamali". Political turmoil visited the region in 1980 and 1981, the time of the school boycotts, when students at the University of Durban-Westville, as well as scholars in the African, Indian and Coloured townships came out in ...

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Special Hearing, Pietersburg, Day 3 (18 June 1997)

This unjust education system resulted in many of our fellow students leaving school to join the work force and others leaving the country to join the liberation movement in exile. The culture of learning and teaching was reduced to non-existence by the regime. Most of our teachers were ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Newcastle (10 September 1996)

... That is from the time when he was at Ohlanga, where he was an active member of the students organisation. --- He was a student at Ohlanga High School in Durban, and he participated in the students boycotts which took place in 1976, and that's when he disappeared. Before he disappeared they ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Pretoria, Day 3 (26 February 1997)

school boycotts etc was that not discussed at those meetings of that council?

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, East London, Day 2 (16 April 1996)

Department fired him. The schools reopened, school boycotts started, pupils were not

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Amnesty Hearing, Port Elizabeth, Day 2 (27 July 1999)

We formed the COSAS at the school and I was the Chairperson of the COSAS. We started to question the rules which were forced by the principal at school and that resulted in school boycotts.

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Submission

1980 he was recruited, together with his friend (deleted) by Colonel Dries van der Merwe to work for him. Their task was to monitor the unrest (1980 school boycotts) in their area, Eersterus. For every piece of information submitted to their handler they got R200.00. The same year he was ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Johannesburg, Day 3 (02 August 2000)

MR MANDLAZI: It was for the reason that he called boycotts, prevented people from going to work and children from going to school. That information was received from Albertina Mtunya, our source. She informed me that Teaspoon Nkosi is responsible for people staying away from work and children ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Port Shepstone (12 August 1996)

... by seeking information about my links with the Natal Indian Congress and other organisations to which I am linked, as well as my role in the recent school boycotts in Port Shepstone. I pointed out that I am the public relations officer of the Marburg and Port Shepstone Ratepayers and Civic ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Port Elizabeth, Day 1 (01 June 1998)

"Meetings and school boycotts were planned by him"

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Leandra, Day 1 (03 June 1997)

... and Tuli Vaku there and many others. As time went by in 1985, we all know that the uprisings started in 1985 here in Leslie with rent boycotts and school boycotts. We also joined the nationwide struggle for the boycotts. We had no school. We are attending from the shacks. As time went by we ...

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Krugersdorp, Day 1 (11 November 1996)

to the police, you were labelled as an informer and you were supposed to be killed. We did not know what was happening in the location. There were school boycotts until December. ...

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Amnesty Hearing, Port Elizabeth, Day 1 (08 September 1997)

I remember with his detention in 1980 with the school boycotts where he was transferred to Modder Bee and there he was detained under section 10 where you couldn't have interrogated him.

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