Did an academic boycott help to end apartheid?
The assertion made by Steven and Hilary Rose in Correspondence (Nature 417, 221, 2002) that the boycott of South Africa by the world’s academic communities “was instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa” is a deception. Apartheid was actually terminated by two pivotal and interrelated political events. To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
