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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.
To voice out their grievances, the community of Mlungisi and surrounding areas, such as Ezibeleni and Whittlesea, under the influence of the United Democratic Front, organised a consumer boycott, which began in August 1985, wherein they placed pressure on the local business community. As part of the consumer boycott, black communities around ...
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 ...
His funeral was widely attended and the UDF called a consumer boycott to protest his torture and death. [2] Two decades later, in December 2009, post-apartheid president Jacob Zuma awarded Nchabeleng the Order of Luthuli in gold "for his exceptional contribution to the fight against the apartheid system in South Africa". [8] [9]
By 1979, it had about 25,000 members, and that year, it organised a successful consumer boycott, [4] and the following year, this led to an agreement with Fattis & Monis. [ 1 ] In about 1980, the union absorbed the African Food and Canning Workers' Union, which represented black workers.
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 ...
On 30 November 1988 the town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg. The boycott by Black and Coloured residents followed the reintroduction of petty apartheid measures by the Conservative Party (CP) controlled town council. In the local elections of October 1988 the CP won 12 of 20 council seats.