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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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... PAC and Youth organisations and allies. We dealt with school unrest that took up a lot of our time unfortunately, schools which were burned down, school boycotts, marches ...
MR ERASMUS: The people involved were mostly pupils from schools and this resulted from the school boycotts. There were strikes because of labour unrest and then also the movement of Xhosas and they belonged to an organisation associated with the ANC. These people caused this chaos.
... the audience that Prince James and Prince Cornelius at that time were trying by all means to keep peace, trying to convince the children to go to school and all that. That was of course the language they were telling to Chris Heunis and Adriaan Vlok but that was not true because these people ...
... 8th statement of 1985, had been met with positive revolutionary responses by the majority of people in South Africa. To mention but a few, in 1984 school boycotts in the East Rand, the local government elections in August '84, the national strike by the National Union of Mine Workers, the rent ...
... Security Policemen there were people like Lieutenant George Beeton and a man called Richard Rademan who was essentially my age. He had been to school in the Eastern Cape like me, and was very similar to me. It was quite an incredible experience to be interrogated, he was my handler, by ...
MR VAN RENSBURG: I would not be able to give you details as to the reasons in their applications but it boiled down to the fact of their activities as their activists in the Eastern Cape, the rendering ungovernable of the vicinity, the school boycotts, the general violence and so forth.
MR BOOYENS: Is it also correct that there had been school boycotts?
"Abel Ramakosi Choane, I was born and brought up in Bloemfontein in ...(indistinct) location. At an early stage of my schooling when I was doing our Standard Four, I got involved in student politics, as a member of a class that was very active at our school. So in 1980, early 1980 I was involved ...
MR BIZOS: And did you know that one of the conditions which Cradora and other UDF affiliated organisations were demanding in order to put an end to school boycotts was the reinstatement of Mr Goniwe and Mr Calata?
... and I think most of the people of Okasi supported or belonged to this organisation. Besides the anti-removal campaign, this was a period marked by school boycotts, consumer boycotts and Trade Union activities, which led to unrest at factories and so forth. Brits had a large industrial area but ...
... that would take place there, there was tremendous much industrial unrest. For example, 22 factories were closed during that time, there were many school boycotts, there were many industry boycotts. And then if I recall correctly, houses were also set alight which were not set alight by ...
MR ROOS: In that time, Tembisa was under the burden of large scale unrest and violence. This was manifested amongst other things, in boycotts, school boycotts, consumer boycotts and wide spread unrest.
MR NIEUWOUDT: No, in the same case where refer to the sjambock, I also used it in 1980 with school boycotts, so I cannot see how you can make that assumption.
... against the two activists, supposed to be members of the African National Congress, were that they were responsible for arson, consumer boycotts, school boycotts, intimidation etc. First Applicant personally made a bomb and the two repaired to the supposed address where the bomb was thrown at ...
... - I come from a family of five brothers and one sister and I am the third one. I was born here in Kimberley - I grew up here and I went to school here like everybody and throughout the turbulent years as everybody knows that we never really had a proper schooling although we would talk ...
That’s what I am also trying to figure out because I cannot clearly get the point. Maybe I would say the reason is my family was also involved in the struggle. Even in the school boycotts I was also involved but I had no idea I was still young.
school children in acts of terrorism and also instigating boycotts and stone-throwing incidents and so forth
... the 6th of September 1989 in South Africa and my information was that the organisation was responsible for, or helped with the planning of several school boycotts and also deeds of terror which included explosions. My information was that the organisation was responsible or helped with the bomb ...
This was a rebirth of the mass congress movement and led to the formation of the United Democratic Front. Massive national school boycotts erupted the townships in 1980, and again in 1984 and 1985.
... He was a high ranking member of Cosatu in both Mamelodi and Soshanguve Townships and as such played a prominent role in stayaways, consumer and school boycotts and other related activities launched by Cosatu in order to undermine the government. Consequently he qualified for elimination in ...
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