Boycotts

A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons. The purpose of a boycott is to inflict some economic loss on the target, or to indicate a moral outrage, to try to compel the target to alter an objectionable behavior. The word is named after Captain Charles Boycott, agent of an absentee landlord in Ireland, against whom the tactic was successfully employed after a suggestion by Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell and his …

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Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2021 English

HALF the size of New York cemetery and twice as dead: this much-quoted, wry comment is generally attributed to the satirical writer Tom Sharpe who worked in Pietermarizburg in the …

(increasingly subject to politically charged protest and boycotts). Consequently, by 1983 the aggregated debt of deprivation were illuminated by sporadic rent boycotts and retaliatory electricity disconnections; for


GALA: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action · 2019 English

MaThoko’s house was the centre of a vibrant LGBT community in KwaThema (photo by David Penney). [...] Photo courtesy of Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA). [...] MaThoko’s house …

township residents organised rent, work and school boycotts, and in August 1983 the United Democratic Front


Laws.Africa · 14 May 2018 English

be in respect of a tender or a bid; (f) group boycotts which refers to an agreed-upon refusal by competitors


Laws.Africa · 8 November 2017 English

be in respect of a tender or a bid; (f) group boycotts which refers to an agreed-upon refusal by competitors


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English

Policies of apartheid of the government of South Africa, progress made in the implementation of the declaration on apartheid and its destructive consequences in South Africa, report of the mission …

all indoor gatherings were banned if educational boycotts or work stayaways were to be advocated . In addition


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English

Statement regarding the abolition of pass laws in attempt to find a peaceful solution to the country's problems.

media reporting, assembly, funerals ; control over boycotts and stayawavS . All the repressive measures of


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English

From the declaration of a national state of Emergency on June 12 1986 onwards, the UDF found itself in a period of twilight legality. This culminated with the restriction ofthe …

COSATU's special congress . carriages . School boycotts continued, and in a series of unprecedented clashes 4 days after the Emergency was declared . Rent boycotts and militant strike actions maintained an ongoing the state . A Rent boycott "The value of rent boycotts is that they strike at the material basis of Black effective weapon here was the rent boycott . These boycotts, which began almost spontaneously during the revolt housing 3 million people • were engaged in rent boycotts . People's power structures often made state harassment


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English

Article by the United Democratic Front in which the Front looks at the crisis facing the ruling party as a result of contradictions in South African capitalism.

systems, and even the police and army) as well as boycotts of local authorities elections and schools . On consumer boycotts, the destruction of shops, looting, refusal to pay rents, bus boycotts, etc . In some of the students . Only after eighteen months of boycotts, systematic detentions, killings and harassment destruction of symbols of apartheid control, consumer boycotts, etc . This is being carried out according to


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English

Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African Studies Centre in Leiden. This research concentrates on the United Democratic Front and …

in 1984 students had already organised school boycotts and protests against 'Bantu Education' . The extension oppression" a period of massive protest set in, with boycotts and increasing violence as prominent features 'civics', played a central role in organising rent boycotts. These civics, sometimes evolving into an alternative movement? Protest politics makes use of such means as boycotts, stay aways and more symbolic activities (Black resorted to drastic measures to enforce consumer boycotts . Youth played a prominent role in the revolt


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English

Article in which the United Democratic Front looking at the clampdowns as having posed new strategic and tactical challenges to all democrats.

onslanht, will crush once and for all the rent boycotts, stay aways and all visible opposi- tion . They


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