It is generally recognised as being one of the few successful political campaigns of the Apartheid era, by writers and activists such as Anthony Sampson and Chief Albert Luthuli.
During this time, the gap between family income did not meet the essential needs because of higher prices of rent, transport and taxes.
In Pretoria (Tshwane) it covered the Lady Selborne district, as well as other areas, including Atteridgeville, Mamelodi and Ga-Rankuwa.
The Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, worried about the economic implications of a large part of its workforce walking twenty miles a day, attempted to settle the matter using various intermediaries.
Although several provisional settlements were discussed, including a complicated system that would reimburse bus passengers their extra penny every day, the boycotters stood firm.
With the radical groups implicitly threatening to mobilise a strike (a rainy Monday)[9] the Chamber of Commerce finally agreed to a public subsidy that would return the old fare on a long term basis.