Mary Manning
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199 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Mary Manning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we had a lot of issues in the store at the time.
So everybody was Mr, Mr, whatever they were.
Oh, yeah, we were really angry about the stuff that was going on and the fact that they wouldn't actually talk to us.
Although they were enforcing the rules, we didn't always follow them.
Out of that 50 or 60 people that worked there, there was probably about 20 union members.
Because of a recession, people got afraid to join unions because they didn't want to go on strike, couldn't afford to go on strike.
So it was kind of a mixture of really staunch trade unionists and people who were in the union but were only in it kind of for protection, if you like, from being sacked or whatever.
that in support of the black people of South Africa, they would boycott South African goods.
I mean, we didn't have a clue.
We didn't know what was going on in South Africa.
At the time as well, there was a media blackout from South Africa, so there wasn't much news coming out.
We would have heard of Nelson Mandela, heard of Steve Biko, but that would have been probably as far as it went for most of us.
So when this letter came in, we were kind of, first of all, we had to try and figure out how to pronounce apartheid because we didn't know how to pronounce it even.
And literally we were trying to pronounce apartheid.
How do you say that?
Apartheid?
Unions in South Africa had asked for a global boycott of their goods to try and isolate South Africa at the time.
That was basically what the policy said, that we would not handle goods that came from South Africa.
We would boycott the South African goods.
And they told us we can't do that, which didn't go down very well.
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