“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

JO ANN ROBINSON {APRIL 17,1912-AUGUST 29,1992} AND OTHERS.

                                            She served as the president of the Women's Political Council in Montgomery.More than 18 months before the arrest of Rosa Parks,Robinson wrote to Montgomery's Mayor as Women Political Council president,threatening a black boycott of city buses if abuses were not curtailed.Following Rosa Parks arrest in December 1955,Robinson played a central role in the start of the protest by producing the leaflets that spread word of the boycott among the black citizens of Montgomery.View the flier below.                                       The arrest of Rosa Parks December 1 1955                                                                                                          Black citizens in Montgomery begin a one day bus boycott to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks.Black community leaders,impressed with the boycott's success,decided to lengthen the boycott and press for summary elimiation of segregation in the city bus system.The Montgomery Improvement Association {MIA} is formed to coordinate the boycott,and Martin Luther King jr of Dexter Avenue Baptist church is elected president connection with the boycott,king delivers his first civil rights speech at the Holt street Baptist church in Montgomery.                                                                                                                                                                                           

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