Oriel Monongoaha

Oriel Monongoaha was a South African activist. In the 1940s, Monongoaha became a squatter leader in Orlando West, like Schreiner Baduza in Alexandra township and Abel Ntoi in Pimville.[1] After land invasions occurred, he helped to protect them against eviction and at the Tobruk camp took on a juridical battle, hiring two law firms and four lawyers.[2] Observing the United Party's attempts to repress squatting he commented it was like a farmer trying to rid his land of birds: "he chases the birds from one part of his field and they alight in another part".[3]

References
  1. Lissoni, Arianna (2012). One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. ISBN 978-1868145737.
  2. Shapiro, Karin A.; Manning, Patrick; Brown, Joshua (1991). History from South Africa: Alternative visions and practices. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780877228486.
  3. Morris, Michael (2012). Apartheid: An Illustrated History. Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN 978-1920289416.
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