Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The potato boycott of 1959 was a consumer boycott in Bethal, South Africa during the Apartheid era against slave-like conditions of potato labourers in Bethal, Transvaal. The boycott started in June 1959 and ended in September 1959. Prominent figures of the movement included Gert Sibande, Ruth First, Michael Scott and Henry Nxumalo.
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.
The consumer movement is an effort to promote consumer protection through an organized social movement, which is in many places led by consumer organizations.It advocates for the rights of consumers, especially when those rights are actively breached by the actions of corporations, governments, and other organizations that provide products and services to consumers.
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 South African police were alerted about the action and were armed and prepared. [8] In major South African cities, people and organizations performed acts of defiance and civil disobedience. [5] The protests were largely non-violent on the parts of the participants, many of whom wore tri-color armbands signifying the ANC. [9]
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 ...
If you are having trouble keeping track of all the consumer boycotts swirling around, you are not alone. A quarter of Americans are boycotting a product or company they had spent money on in the ...
Several independent sectors of South African society opposed apartheid through various means, including social movements, passive resistance, and guerrilla warfare.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 ...