International Reggae Day Celebrated Across the Globe

The anti-Apartheid movement in the 1980s was spearheaded through numerous consciousness raising initiatives, which included reggae music's unrelenting attention to the plight of South Africans (notably the late Peter Tosh's 1977 anthem "Fight Apartheid"). The economic sanctions and divestment of foreign companies from South Africa resulted in an estimated $7 billion loss to the country between 1986 and 1990, according to the South African Reserve Bank, and, ultimately the dissolution of the racially oppressive Apartheid regime.