Useless Boys’ Club, noun phrase

In historical contexts. In Soweto: a derogatory nickname for the Soweto Urban Bantu Council (see UBC).
1977 P.C. Venter Soweto 37The teenagers have had it with waiting, man. Most of the older people are Uncle Toms...Take the Urban Bantu Council. We call them the Useless Boys Club.
1987 P. Laurence in Weekly Mail 24 Dec. 3Soweto’s Urban Bantu Council — dubbed the ‘Useless Boys’ Club’ by black activists.
a derogatory nickname for the Soweto Urban Bantu Council (see UBC).
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