1.3.1 Define the term "boycott". 1.3.2 Describe the incident that led to the total ban on South African imports by the Irish government. 1.3.3 List TWO other causes/campaigns that was relevant at this time.
1.3.1 Define the term "boycott". 1.3.2 Describe the incident that led to the total ban on South African imports by the Irish government. 1.3.3 List TWO other causes/campaigns that was relevant at this time.
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Define the term "boycott". |
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Describe the incident that led to the total ban on South African imports by the Irish government. |
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List TWO other causes/campaigns that was relevant at this time. |
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This source presents an extract from an article by Chris McGreal that was
published in The Guardian. The content of this article focusses on international
anti-apartheid boycott.
The rise of the popular anti-apartheid boycott over nearly 30 years made its mark on
South Africans who were increasingly confronted by a repudiation (rejection) of their
system. Ordinary Europeans pressured supermarkets to stop selling South African
products. British students forced Barclays Bank to pull out of the apartheid state.
The refusal of a Dublin shop worker to ring up a Cape grapefruit led to a strike and
then a total ban on South African imports by the Irish government.
By the mid-1980s, one in four Britons said they were boycotting South African goods
a testament to the reach of the anti-apartheid campaign. By then it was well
entrenched in universities as one of the great left causes of the day, alongside the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and support for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
The musician's union blocked South African artists from playing on the BBC, and
the cultural boycott saw most performers refusing to play in the apartheid state,
although some, including Elton John and Queen, infamously put on concerts at Sun
City in the Bophuthatswana homeland.
The US didn't have the same sporting or cultural ties, and imported far fewer South
African products, but the mobilisation against apartheid in universities, churches and
through local coalitions in the 1980s was instrumental in forcing the hand of
American politicians and big business in favour of financial sanctions and
divestment.
By the time President FW de Klerk was ready to release Mandela and negotiate an
end to apartheid, a big selling point for part of the white population was an end to
boycotts and isolation.
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Introduction
Race and racial discrimination has a long history. Apartheid is a system of institutionalized racial segregation in South and South West Africa. Campaigns and boycotts against apartheid is one of the most well known protest or boycott against race based discrimination. These boycotts became very famous all across the world. However they were not accepted without resistance. In fact many people and many nations saw the apartheid as extreme and went against the efforts of the South Africans.
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