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Mdantsane Bus Boycott

THEME: Origins
Mdantsane Bus Boycott

Community groups in the Ciskei “homeland” organized bus boycotts in 1983; the police opened fire on them. These community groups became the base of the UDF in the Border Region.

Poster: Offset litho of drawing of 1983 Mdantsane bus boycott by Lou Almon, calendar issued by Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), 1987, Johannesburg. SAHA collection: AL2446/3838.

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