 The African people are realizing that apartheid means nothing else but oppression and exploitation. To change these conditions, the leading black liberation organization, the African National Congress, had begun a mass movement of civil disobedience, defying the laws of racial superiority called apartheid. Civil disobedience brings a spotlight to the violence of oppressive states and industries. The civil disobedience that occurred in South Africa during the apartheid years defied all apartheid laws. And it was really, really strong because it happened everywhere. From street committees to unions to labor movements to student movements, everybody found an aspect of apartheid laws that affected them and then used some kind of mechanism to defy it. It didn't change overnight and it wasn't one day of civil disobedience. It takes time and you will have obstacles but I really don't think there's any fight that we cannot win if we have the numbers.