20 Years Since Banning of End Conscription Campaign in SA

"Conscription was the only way whites felt the pain of apartheid and this made it an ideal mobilising tool -- apartheid wasn't worth dying for.

[The End Conscription Campaign] was the way to bypass the Defence Act, which prescribed a 10-year jail sentence for anyone who encouraged people to disobey their call-up. We could call on the state not to conscript, as we were not calling on individuals to refuse to serve."

-- Brett Myrdal, one of the founders of the End Conscription Campaign, Mail & Guardian article Hell No We Won't Go by Jonathan Ancer, 25 August 2008