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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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... as the ANC determined that a particular person mighthave been an informant to the police, they would have eliminatedsuch a person, also by means of school boycotts, consumer boycotts,many of these civilians suffered unnecessarily. Unfortunatelythe ANC made no distinction when they took a ...
MR BIZOS: Now, having heard our learned friends and their witnesses, they appear to have regarded mass action, school boycotts, shop boycotts and such activities as terrorism or protesting against illegitimate structures such as council as terrorism. How did you view those accusations at the time?
destabilising the country. Actions committed by them includednecklace murders, ordinary murders, assaults, robbery, arson,damage to property, intimidation, the organising of school boycottsand consumer boycotts, bombings and stonings. These actions hadto be countered by the South African Police.
... events in the schools in Worcester in 1985 and we would like you to tell us more about it and about your involvement in the activities around the school boycotts and then about your experiences of being detained and assaulted. You were very young at the time about 14 is that right. ...
MR NIEUWOUDT: He was involved in the school boycotts in 1980.
MR TAYLOR: Yes. He mainly focused on school boycotts, neutralisation of the then black civic members and the replacement of alternative structures, rent boycotts. At times -the purpose of the rent boycotts, he believed that the money should rather go to the various committees and the community.
MISS SEROKE: During the school boycotts in your area, were members of the Christian Democratic Party going to school or was your only child going to school.
... power desk, of which I was the unit head, submitted regular affirmative written reports about the role of Thibedi in stay-away, consumer boycotts, school boycotts and other ANC/SACP/COSATU ...
CAPT HECHTER: ... Kwandebele at the time and that happened by burning down of houses and schools, consumer boycotts, school boycotts, strikes and large scale intimidation and violence and also several murders. I assumed that Brig Cronje received an instruction that Piet Ntuli, we had to get rid of ...
lesser extent Whites, school boycotts, arson, assaults, assaults with the intent to do grievous bodily harm.
... in the Government-imposed black local authorities, and the conflict between Inkatha and the UDF, the trade union movements, Inkatha's reaction to school unrest and boycotts, the rise of vigilante groups associated with Inkatha and backed by the police, the intolerance of opposition by the ...
DR ALLY: Elsie, just to go back to your, what was happening at your school. I know you say that you were new at the school, it was your first year in high school, you were in standard six. This event took place in the early part of the year in April, but can you recall whether, from the time that ...
MR VAN ZYL: Mr Chairman, the information that we were receiving was that he was briefing and being debriefed by Mr Goniwe on the situation in Oudtshoorn regarding the school and school boycotts and unrest.
should be on reflection, what we witness now is that there still seem to be problems between parents and students as we see it through the continued school or class boycotts, this doesn't seem that the youth and the parents and the communities can build a better and peaceful ...
ADV BOOYENS: Regarding everyday life of people they decided whether there were consumer boycotts, school boycotts etc, is that correct?
... we just sit around. Then there was someone there who was an activist. He came to me when I was with someone else who was active in the SRC at the school and told us that he was going to recruit people and if anyone wanted to go into exile he would assist that person. We agreed in ...
MR BOOYENS: On page 5 you continue to deal with the fact that there were uprisings and school boycotts in the Eastern Cape, is that correct?
MR J T MAZIBUKO: Well, it was in the, the form of protests, consumer boycotts, school boycotts as well as ordinary boycotts. This is what we today call the mass action. We embarked on a mass action.
MR VISSER: In paragraph 3 and 4 and 5, you have summarised what the problems were which you experienced and you refer to school boycotts, stay-away actions, malicious damage to property, arson, murder and a video, or two videos were displayed here yesterday, which gave an idea of what you had to ...
MR JANSE VAN RENSBURG: Sir, the problems surrounding for instance school boycotts and the like, that would have been dealt with by the person representing that government department or he would have been present as well.
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