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The organisation was renamed the "Anti-Apartheid Movement" and instead of just a consumer boycott, the group would now "co-ordinate all the anti-apartheid work and keep South Africa's apartheid policy in the forefront of British politics". [1] It also campaigned for the total isolation of apartheid South Africa, including economic sanctions.
Mass action against the ruling National Party (NP) government, coupled with South Africa's growing international isolation and economic sanctions, were instrumental in leading to negotiations to end apartheid, which began formally in 1990 and ended with South Africa's first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994. [6] [4]
The resolution also established the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid. [1] The committee was originally boycotted by the Western nations, because of their disagreement with the aspects of the resolution calling for the boycott of South Africa.
Economic boycotts, both internally and internationally, played a role in bringing down the Apartheid Regime. Mkhuseli Jack was one of the few people in South Africa at the time to use them. Aged twenty-seven, Mkhuseli Jack was a spokesperson and one of the main leaders of the movement, which would become known as the Consumer Boycott Campaign.
In 1997, a 100-campus boycott against Pepsi — using tactics modeled after South Africa's anti-apartheid movement — succeeded in getting the soft drink company to withdraw all of its brands and ...
The Vaal uprising was a period of popular revolt in black townships in apartheid South Africa, beginning in the Vaal Triangle on 3 September 1984. Sometimes known as the township revolt and driven both by local grievances and by opposition to apartheid, the uprising lasted two years and affected most regions of the country.
South Africa's treatment of Coloured people under early apartheid was also highlighted by the death of Milton King while in police custody in 1951. King's killing sparked numerous protests, marches, and union-led boycotts across the Caribbean and United Kingdom that foreshadowed Jamaica's 1959 government-wide economic boycott of South African ...
The leader of South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party said Wednesday it will join a proposed government of national unity, a step toward ending the country's political deadlock after the long-ruling ...