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  2. Academic boycott of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The academic boycott of South Africa comprised a series of boycotts of South African academic institutions and scholars initiated in the 1960s, at the request of the African National Congress, with the goal of using such international pressure to force the end to South Africa's system of apartheid.

  3. Anti-Apartheid Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Anti-Apartheid Movement was instrumental in initiating an academic boycott of South Africa in 1965. The declaration was signed by 496 university professors and lecturers from 34 British universities to protest against apartheid and associated violations of academic freedom.

  4. International sanctions during apartheid - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Libertarian Murray Rothbard also opposed this policy, asserting that the most-direct adverse impact of the boycott would actually be felt by the black workers in that country, and the best way to remedy the problem of apartheid was by promoting trade and the growth of free market capitalism in South Africa. [12]

  5. Sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era

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    South Africa under apartheid was subjected to a variety of international boycotts, including on sporting contacts.There was some debate about whether the aim of the boycott was to oppose segregation in sport or apartheid in general, with the latter view prevailing in later decades.

  6. 1957 Alexandra bus boycott - Wikipedia

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    The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. 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. [1] [2]

  7. South African opposition party to boycott president's ... - AOL

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    South Africa's third-largest political party said it will boycott President Cyril Ramaphosa's annual speech to Parliament on Thursday because its fiery leader and five other top party officials ...

  8. Bus boycotts in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Bus boycotts in South Africa were a series of protests that took place in the Union of South Africa and in the present Republic of South Africa against increasing prices of transport fees and segregating practices during the Apartheid to the present.

  9. Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid - Wikipedia

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    After the arrival of television in South Africa in 1975, the British Actors Union, Equity, boycotted the service, and no British program concerning its associates could be sold to South Africa. Sporting and cultural boycotts did not have the same impact as economic sanctions, but they did much to lift consciousness amongst normal South Africans ...