{{Short description|South African activist}} '''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.<ref name="Lissoni">{{cite book |last1=Lissoni |first1=Arianna |title=One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today. |date=2012 |publisher=Wits University Press |location=Johannesburg |isbn=978-1868145737}}</ref> 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.<ref name="History">{{cite book |last1=Shapiro |first1=Karin A. |last2=Manning |first2=Patrick |last3=Brown |first3=Joshua |title=History from South Africa: Alternative visions and practices |date=1991 |publisher=Temple University Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=9780877228486 |page=71}}</ref> 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".<ref name="Morris">{{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Michael |title=Apartheid: An Illustrated History |date=2012 |publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers |location=Cape Town |isbn=978-1920289416}}</ref>
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