men in uniform picking potatoes in a field.

In southern Africa, in the middle of the last century, potatoes became an instrument of boycott. During the apartheid era in South Africa, blacks were forbidden to be in areas for whites without a special pass. Those who violated this rule were caught and punished. In particular, they were sent to potato farms, where slave working conditions prevailed. There, the unfortunate were sometimes beaten to death, and the corpses were buried right in the field. The relatives of the dead were not informed. As a result, the oppressed workers found an original way to draw public attention to their situation. horizontal video 1080x1920 px