Workers at Dunnes Stores refuse to handle South African produce because of the treatment of black people.
Over the past few years, three and a half million black South Africans have been forced from their homes to live in black reservations under the South African government's plan for segregation. These reservations lack basic housing and sanitation. Black people are deprived of basic rights such as the right to marry a white person, the right to sit in the same cinema or restaurant as a white person or lie in the next hospital bed.
Dunnes Stores workers are now fighting back over the treatment of black people in South Africa. Mary Manning was the first to refuse to handle the goods and was suspended from her job and 12 of her colleagues joined her on a picket line.
Three months ago, a twenty year old cashier at Dunnes Stores in Henry Street Dublin said she wouldn't handle South African fruit.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 2 November 1984. The reporter is Maggie O'Kane.
