Drops in ocean that turned tide

WHEN Vonnie Munroe walked off her job in protest at the Dunnes Stores selling South African goods 20 years ago today, she did not realise that it would cost her her home.

The 27-year-old mother also knew very little about South Africa, except that it had a very repressive apartheid system that excluded blacks from almost everything.

But Vonnie was a member of a fairly strong union, IDATU, which had just issued a directive to all its members not to handle South African goods.