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school boycottsExplanation First Applicant testified that he was the commanding officer of the Security Branch in Tembisa from March 1986 and that he held the rank of Captain. School and consumer boycotts, unrest and violence were the order of the day in Tembisa at the time. ... at the time, but my direct involvement in politics itself came about in 1976 with the uprise in Soweto. I was elected onto a Committee which, a school committee, Spes Bona High in Athlone where we managed the first boycotts which took place in Cape ... According to the Applicants there was a general state of unrest in the Eastern Cape at that stage which manifested itself in school boycotts, burning of government buildings and killing and intimidation of suspected or perceived collaborators. The Applicants also pointed out that a pamphlet ... ... At that time there were already some of those, especially where the local councils were then substituted with other structures where there were school boycotts. And these so-called free areas were well established. Now our fear was that these areas would then also extend to the Transkei and ... |