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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Nobody can get in contact with us.
Nobody knew where we were.
Bishop Tutu was waiting at the airport.
So when he heard what was happening, he kind of got the word out.
it really changed people's attitudes because they were starting to wonder then, well, why didn't they let, I mean, they're shop workers, why didn't they let them in?
What have they got to hide over there?
Like what, you know, and they shot themselves in the foot, really, they said African, as Africans did, because had they let us in, I mean, like, there might have been a little bit of interest in it, but not to the extent that happened once they didn't let us in and when we went missing for the 24 hours.
So they really kind of brought more attention to it than it would have got had we just gone over.
So what they did was they changed the law.
That wasn't what we'd gone out and strike for.
We'd gone out and strike for the right not to handle South African goods, but we actually got the law in Ireland changed.
So we achieved much more than we thought we were going to achieve.
He said that he had heard about Airstrike when he was in Robben Island and that it had given him hope, which, I mean, like for someone that came to say something like that, it's just, it's very emotional.
Like to know that what you, like we were told for so long that what you're doing is going to be, is wrong and hurt the black people.
To hear someone like Nathanael Mandela say, you know, it kept them going and, you know.
Now, we didn't change a part of that, but we certainly, I suppose, brought attention to it.
See, I suppose, I mean, it was solidarity.
That's, I think, how he looked upon it.
It was people who had, and as he said, we were so far away, we had nothing to gain from it.
But to show solidarity for his people,
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