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The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is generally recognised as being one of the few successful political campaigns of the Apartheid era, by writers and activists such as Anthony Sampson and Chief Albert ...
In early August 1943, the bus fare in Alexandra Township increased from four to five cents, sparking a boycott of 20,000 individuals, including Nelson Mandela. The boycott lasted nine days until the local bus company conceded and lowered the fare back to its original price.
El boicot a los autobuses de Alexandra de 1957 fue una protesta emprendida contra la Corporación de Transporte de Servicios Públicos ( PUTCO) por la gente de Alexandra en Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica.
June 2019. This essay discusses my experiences and recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I grew up. Unusually, it was a freehold area in which Africans could own land, and my parents owned two properties there.
On 7 January, 1957, these Africans in Alexandra launched a bus boycott exclaiming, "Azikhwelwa!" "We shall not ride!" was the rallying cry as they walked the 22 miles from Alexandra to Johannesburg rather than taking the bus.
The Evaton and Alexandra boycotts were initiated not by the ANC but by local residents for whom fare increases were an intolerable financial burden. But the Alexandra action, in particular, alerted Congress strategists to the potential of the boycott weapon at a time when new forms of action were badly needed. Paradoxically, in 1958, ANC morale
The Alexandra boycott of 1957, which evoked sympathy boycotts across the country, even in areas in which bus fares had not been increased, reached the proportions of a major confrontation between the state on the one hand and African communities and political organisations on the other.
