Good news
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“Good news”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/7271
- Title
- Good news
- Description
- Handwritten sheet containing notices re the boycotting of white-owned shops, Grahamstown, September 1985. Transcription: “Good News[.] We are reminding you about the conditions given to white shopkeepers on the 1st day of boycotting 1.9.1985 in Grahamstown. Whats these condition about[.] We gave out a list of 40 conditions needed by black people. What do we say now[.] Because white shopkeepers see to our conditions now people can buy from white shopkeepers from the 1.11.1985. Note[.] Any white shopkeeper who ignores or rude to a black customer, his or her shop will be boycotted. Remember! Although these soldiers are not needed anymore in the township our needs are not through yet. We would like to see what is going on, and we would have another meeting where we discuss about what we can do. BNotice[.] Any leaflet which is against this one more especially which wasn’t stamped, destroy or burn it. Be careful of those people, also those speaks bad about the leaders at shebeens[.] Those are the people killing your moving struggling[.] (Transcription - W van der Walt - Rhodes University Library).
- Subject
- South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Boycotts -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- South Africa -- Politics and government
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57677
- Date Issued
- 1985-09
- Rights Holder
- Rights holder unknown
- Type
- text
- ephemera
- Extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Language
- English
- Location - Physical Location
- Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.
- useGuidelines
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images apply to the Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
- Provenance
- Materials donated by Rosemary Smith
- Item sets
- Rosemary Smith Collection
“Good news”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/7271
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