• The potato boycott of 1959 was a consumer boycott in Bethal, South Africa during the Apartheid era against slave-like conditions of potato labourers in...
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  • Mary Thipe (category South African women activists)
    South African anti-apartheid and human rights activist who took part in the 1956 Women's March against apartheid pass laws, the South African potato boycott...
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    Ruth First (category Use South African English from April 2013)
    treason Gert Sibande South African potato boycott Marks, Shula (October 1983). "Ruth First: A Tribute". Journal of Southern African Studies. 10 (1): 123–128...
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  • Gert Sibande (category South African activists)
    played a critical role in the Potato Boycott of 1959. The Gert Sibande district in Mpumalanga province of South Africa is named after him. He was born...
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    Thomas Nkobi (category South African civil rights activists)
    same year he was arrested for participating in the nationwide South African Potato Boycott, following The Farm Labour Scandal, a journalistic investigation...
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    Kugel (category Potato dishes)
    casserole, most commonly made from lokshen (לאָקשן קוגל lokshen kugel) or potato. It is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish, often served on Shabbos and...
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    19.0%.Statistics South Africa estimates the number of deaths attributable to AIDS in 2017 as 126,755 or 25.03% of all South African deaths. A 2008 study...
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    League during the Great Famine. When the potato blight returned to Ireland in the 1879 famine, the League boycotted "notorious landlords" and its members...
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  • Front, Pan-African Congress, South African Communist Party, and African National Congress, and a long international embargo against South Africa. The effective...
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    groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally...
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