[2] Stay Away is a form of non-violent strike action that began occurring in Zimbabwe in response to economic and societal failures by Robert Mugabe's government in the mid-1990s and onward.
According to SW Radio Africa[usurped], this form of protest has the support of all major civic bodies in the country.
It calls for a solid one- or two-day "stay away" from work to protest in a manner that will not expose people to the violence and intimidation of the police and the army.
Between August 1984 and December 1986, four times more political work stoppages were staged than in the entire preceding three and a half decades.
[5] In addition to school boycotts, general strikes and guerrilla action taken by the ANC, they made South Africa ungovernable and forced the Apartheid government to gradually reform until it was finally abolished in 1994.