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The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) 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 Luthuli. Ruth First said of the Boycott: "not since the days of the Defiance Campaign had Africans held so strategic a position."

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  • The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) 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 Luthuli. Ruth First said of the Boycott: "not since the days of the Defiance Campaign had Africans held so strategic a position." (en)
  • Der Alexandra Bus Boycott (auch Azikwelwa (isiXhosa und isiZulu); deutsch: Busboykott von Alexandra bzw. Wir werden nicht fahren) war eine 1957 durchgeführte Aktion schwarzer Einwohner von Alexandra in Südafrika. Er gilt als eine von wenigen erfolgreichen Widerstandsaktionen gegen das Apartheidregime. (de)
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  • The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) 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 Luthuli. Ruth First said of the Boycott: "not since the days of the Defiance Campaign had Africans held so strategic a position." (en)
  • Der Alexandra Bus Boycott (auch Azikwelwa (isiXhosa und isiZulu); deutsch: Busboykott von Alexandra bzw. Wir werden nicht fahren) war eine 1957 durchgeführte Aktion schwarzer Einwohner von Alexandra in Südafrika. Er gilt als eine von wenigen erfolgreichen Widerstandsaktionen gegen das Apartheidregime. (de)
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  • Alexandra Bus Boycott (de)
  • 1957 Alexandra bus boycott (en)
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