Despite an open-ended ceasefire having been agreed between Hamas and Israel, trade union Cosatu have stated that they will continue plans to intensify the boycott against Israeli products and companies. Cosatu are seeking to mobilise more South Africans to take up the cause, which also aims to persuade retailers selling[…]
Cosatu on Tuesday vowed to “intensify” mobilising South Africans to boycott companies trading with Israel and any goods imported from the country. The Congress of SA Trade Unions would picket outside the Woolworths in Eastgate shopping mall on Saturday to condemn the store for continuing to stock Israeli products, national[…]
Representatives from the Palestinian solidarity movement in South Africa met with President Jacob Zuma at his official residence in Cape Town, Genadendal on Wednesday. The 90 minute meeting on Palestine was convened in response to growing protests by South African civil society across the country. There has been stronger pressure[…]
For the past month since the beginning of the Israeli-Gaza conflict many individual South Africans, anti-Israeli lobby groups and public figures have called for the boycott of products sourced from, and manufactured on Palestinian occupied territories and within Israel. Last week the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in South Africa[…]
It seems as if the momentum in the national boycott targeting Woolworths is growing as more consumers latch on to the campaign. The boycott was announced last week in light of an intensified consumer campaign against certain companies stocking Israeli products in response to the Zionist government’s recent military assault[…]
The coordinators of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) South Africa have hailed the overwhelming support shown by the South African community towards their campaign to economically cripple the state of Israel. Local Palestinian sympathisers have come out strongly against companies with affiliations to the oppressive state, as anger continues[…]
In recent weeks, numerous local solidarity groups have called for a retail boycott of some of the countries big supermarkets, in the hopes of pressuring them to cut business ties with Israeli companies. The campaign has however been met with a divided opinion from the community, with many concerned that[…]
Retail stores will not remove Israeli imported products from their shelves, the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) said on Wednesday. The council said in a statement that some of its members, including Shoprite, Massmart, Spar, Woolworths and Pick n Pay, had been approached by customers, sometimes aggressively and[…]
More than 30 wide-ranging South African civil society and religious organizations, trade unions, and political parties have come together under the banner of the National Coalition 4 Palestine (NC4P) in calling for a full boycott of Woolworths. NC4P affiliates include the ANC Youth League, Muslim Judicial Council, Kairos South Africa,[…]
A full boycott of Woolworths has been called by the National Coalition for Palestine (NC4P), following its refusal to remove Israeli products from its stores. According to the coalition, which consists of a number of Palestinian solidarity groups in South Africa, it was protesting the retailer’s “unwavering support for the[…]
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