Special Report Transcript Episode 52, Section 4, Time 20:30

The Ciskei puppets skilfully undermined all those litigations by arresting and detaining the lawyers who were defending those people or some who actually had civil claims against the Ciskei government. Of course when they were told, it was interpreted in a political way that you are taking the government to court, so we are charging you. Coincidentally, the UDF had just been launched in August 1983 when the boycott started in July. So in a sense, whilst we may have lost the bus boycott, the struggle had transformed itself now into UDF and in fact during the whole train period, people in trains, there was a lot of mobilization through trains. In fact even the Jo’burg train sanction, they copied that from the Mdansane bus boycott because there was an intensive and extensive political mobilization around UDF initially but even broadly around the trains.

Notes: Sisa Njikelana interviewed

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