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==Conscientious objectors==
The first known conscientious objectors in South Africa were English, Scottish, and Irishmen who were disillusioned by the treatment of [[Boer]] civilians kept in the [[Internment|concentration camps]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LizzieVanZyl.jpg |title=File:LizzieVanZyl.jpg - Wikimedia Commons |publisher=Commons.wikimedia.org |date= |accessdate=2021-11-19}}</ref> Those who based their objection to war either on grounds of the rejection of a particular system, such as the [[apartheid]] regime, or doctrines that exclude war based upon illegal means. The [[End Conscription Campaign]] was an organisation active from
==Pacifists, deserters and draft dodgers==
Those who resisted war in general or in part due to either religious, private or personal convictions
However,
==Committee on South African War Resistance==
The Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) was founded in 1978 by the merging of two groups of [[South Africa]]n war resisters active in [[UK|Britain]]. A branch in the Netherlands was formed in 1979.<ref>{{cite thesis |degree=Masters |last1=Collins |first1=Brian F. |title=A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990) |date=1995 |publisher=University of Cape Town |url=https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/21779}}</ref> It
==Conscientious Objector Support Group==
The [[Conscientious Objector Support Group]] (COSG), an umbrella organisation, was formed in 1978. In 1982
==Stop the War Committee==
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The [[Stop the War Committee]] was an [[anti-war]] organisation which opposed the [[Second Boer War]].
It was formed by [[William Thomas Stead]] in 1899.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Riedi|first=Eliza|date=February 2013|title=The women pro-Boers: gender, peace and the critique of empire in the South African war|url=https://academic.oup.com/histres/article/86/231/92/5603471|journal=Historical Research|volume=86|issue=231|pages=92–115|doi=10.1111/j.1468-2281.2012.00612.x|via=Oxford Academic}}</ref><ref>{{
==See also==
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* [http://www.wri-irg.org/co/rtba/southafrica.htm Refusing to Bear Arms (South Africa)], A worldwide survey of conscription and conscientious objection to military service, 10 August 1998.
[[Category:Anti-war movement]]
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