Young and energetic, Khusta led an economic boycott of downtown white-owned businesses in Port Elizabeth to leverage black people's demands for better treatment -humane treatment by the apartheid government of South Africa.
Akiwa mchanga na mwenye nguvu, Khusta aliongoza ususiaji wa kiuchumi wa biashara zilizomilikiwa na weupe mjini Port Elizabeth ili kuchochea madai ya watu weusi ya kutaka matibabu bora zaidi - utibabu wa kinyama unaofanywa na serikali ya ubaguzi wa rangi ya Afrika Kusini.