ISAAC B. TABATA

The struggle of the Non-Europeans of South Africa for liberation is not unique in its general form. Every aspect of it has come in some form or another been experienced by other peoples of the world during some stage of their development. The South African economy with its inherent contradictions, the unequal distribution of wealth, the existence of lavish wealth side by side with extreme poverty---is centuries old in Europe. The herrenvolk disease that riddles the political, economic and social structure of our country, has also been known in Europe and Asia. Indeed, it has cost mankind millions upon millions in human lives. The struggle of the oppressed in this country is similar to the struggles of all the oppressed people throughout world history. It is part and parcel of the struggle of mankind in its long and arduous march towards progress. . . The need for the use of the Boycott weapon at this stage of our development must be seen as arising out of the objective conditions of South Africa. It is dictated by the living realities of racial oppression facing the Non-European in the so-called Union of South Africa.

-Issac B. Tabata, The Boycott As Weapon Of Struggle (pamphlet), June 1952.