Sixty-three years ago this week, a group of South African exiles and their supporters gathered in London to call for the boycott of several South African imports into Britain. The gathering would launch the Anti-Apartheid Movement, a British organisation leading the international boycott against South Africa’s apartheid. Over the years, more European citizens began to pressure supermarkets and companies to stop selling South African commodities. Barclays Bank, for instance, was pushed by students in the UK to withdraw from the apartheid state. By the mid-1980s, one in four Britons boycotted So…