Everything except a fewminor commodities must be purchased from white-owned stores Johannesburg.
Under the former Government, commerce was strictly controlled to force Sowetans to buy from white-owned stores in downtown Johannesburg.
For a while, Mr. Powell led some protests in front of white-owned stores along 125th Street.
The Indians undersell white-owned stores by pocketing the sales tax receipts.
As he spoke, the mainly white-owned stores in the downtown shopping area of the town were deserted because of a boycott by blacks that began on Feb. 27.
Not only did he take on the schools in the 1960's but Mr. King, with his wife, Barbara, also organized boycotts of local white-owned stores.
Mr. Derby-Lewis said his party did not object to letting other races shop in white-owned stores, which have grown to depend on such customers.
He also was sharply criticized for racially charged statements last year before the torching of a white-owned store in Harlem.
Other filings said prosecutors had several tips that more than a dozen white-owned stores were selling the same ingredients, but failed to follow up on them.
Ga Thapedi was a white-owned store where the locals used to buy anything from salt to school uniforms, wedding gowns and suits.