"It was only after the strike began, that we started to really learn what apartheid meant, and once we actually understood, we knew that we couldn't stop until no South African goods passed through our tills."
42 years ago, Mary Manning — a 21-year-old Irish cashier in Dublin — refused to ring up South African grapefruit. For that she was suspended. Ten coworkers walked out with her, and their strike lasted almost three years, up until the moment when Ireland became the first Western country to ban apartheid goods.
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