Mary Manning

Well, because the store we worked in had three entrances.

So there's the main entrance, which is on Henry Street, which is the main road.

And then there's another side entrance, which is not as big, but it was fairly busy as well.

And then at the back, there was a delivery entrance.

Well, the first day or so, I mean, nobody asked us because they didn't see us.

But when people did start to ask us, we had started on the picket line to start to educate ourselves and started to learn what was happening over in South Africa.

So the more we learned, the more determined we became that we weren't going to handle South African goods.

We couldn't handle South African goods.

in support of the people, the black people of South Africa.

So I suppose the more we learned, the more we were able to have conversations with people about what was happening and why we shouldn't be buying it.

Because people put up the argument, oh, you know, you're going to hurt the black people of South Africa if you boycott their goods.

And they had every excuse in the world.

I suppose things like, I mean, a black person, they have to have a passbook.

So they had to travel everywhere with this book, this identification book.

They couldn't travel into certain areas.

They were only allowed to work in certain jobs.

They weren't allowed to go into cafes or anything.

They weren't allowed to intermarry.

There was loads and loads of different rules and different classifications of what people could do there.

And it was just so, like, against human rights.