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04 | Boycott! | The Grapefruit Ladies

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It's 1984, and in Dublin, Ireland, 21 year old shop assistant Mary Manning refuses to sell a South African grapefruit. Her action draws world attention to the campaign to hit Apartheid where it hurts, by crippling the South African economy. At the same time a young Australian seaman starts a global ban on shipping oil to South Africa.

How South Africans won their freedom from the racist Apartheid regime, and the Australians who helped them fight for it. 

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