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19th of July 1984, a group of workers refused to handle South African goods, beginning the anti-apartheid Dunnes Stores strike.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/07/19/#event-5717

On This Day, 19th July

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The Fruits of Apartheid. Sketches of fruits are labelled "Whites Only", "Violence!", "Forced Removals", "Detention Without Trial" and "Poverty". The caption reads "Support the fight for justice in South Africa; do not buy South African fruit."
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Somebody here who remembers the Apartheid boycottand wants to share how it was?
It was before I was born, but I'd really like to know how society was talking about it.

Were the white South Africans depicted as victims or was there already consensus to ostracize them? (The article sounds like everybody, including politicians and churches applauded the boicott).

Or was there the argument that economic boycott doesn't help and hits the wrong people?

Was there also a cultural/academic boycott?

(Just asking random questions, maybe somebody who lived it wants to explain a little bit from these times...)