Opinion about the #BlackMonday protests remain divided. The 2018 protests didn’t manage quite the same turnout as the event did in 2017.
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Feedback on Project #BlackMonday: A quiet day in Johannesburg
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Project #BlackMonday:- Farm murder protesters set to ask Donald Trump for help
Large convoys and controversial displays dominated the #BlackMonday protests in 2017. Now, they’re hoping “The Donald” will take notice.
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South Africa, international pressure mounting
While the South African media remains conveniently quiet about international resistance to the current regime in the country, dr Dan Roodt described it as “already bigger than the anti apartheid movement ever was.”
During the apartheid years groups of people regularly protested outside South African embassies. It is however worth remembering that these protests were funded by various liberal governments, amongst others Sweden and the Netherlands. The United Nations also backed the movement. The anti-apartheid movement cannot, therefore, really be regarded as a spontaneous movement, while the current protest movement definitely is exactly that.
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