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Apartheid Museum sign

Apartheid Museum sign

Another nice shot from Joburg. I am not sure that I was the one who actually took this one, though...But highly recommended, the Apartheid museum!

Modern History (1800 – now) · Mads Bødker

In June 1959, a small group of exiled South Africans and British sympathizers gathered in a London flat to urge ordinary shoppers to boycott South African goods. This modest initiative grew into a formidable international solidarity campaign over the next three decades, targeting supermarkets, stock exchanges, and even Olympic stadiums. The campaign aimed to make the apartheid system unsustainable for South Africa's white minority government. A pivotal moment came on March 21, 1960, when South African police killed 69 unarmed demonstrators in Sharpeville. This massacre galvanized the boycott movement, leading to the formation of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. See our article on the Boycotting Apartheid: The Global Sanctions Campaign That Isolated South Africa, 1960–1990.

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