The most successful boycott that's ever taken place in South Africa is the boycott on TV Licences. SABC was always funded, under White rule and Black rule by TV Licences. If you buy a TV you are NOT ALLOWED TO BUY THE TV without having caught up on your TV licence. It is a LAW.

However somehow, the vast majority of South Africans don't pay TV Licences. The Blacks normally don't pay anything anyway. I'm not sure how the non-Whites pay or don't pay. But Whites for decades have done their utmost to not pay TV licenses. The Government has threatened people endlessly and tried all means to hunt people down. But it's a huge failure.

The boycott seems to mainly be an unorganised grass roots thing where people hated SABC TV under Black rule and just refused, using all means to bypass the rules.

It might also be that people don't watch that much TV using a TV set. That they watch their videos and movies via PCs and phones and that also helps them to bypass the very strict rules relating to TVs.

The boycott is so successful and has been carrying on for decades that the Blacks in government have been beaten. And they are trying to find other ways to fund SABC.

Under White rule, SABC was funded by TV licenses and it worked well.

This is unquestionably the greatest and most successful boycott in South Africa where even the law, the cops and all the retailers cannot get people to pay TV Licenses.

The 2nd most successful boycott has to do with Toll fees.