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Allison Barrett was born in South Africa and came to Britain as a child. She was an activist in Tyneside Anti-Apartheid Group from the early 1980s and represented it on the AAM National Committee. Tyneside AA Group included artists and designers and set up an anti-apartheid choir, which performed at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1988, it hosted the South African dance group ‘Sisters of the Long March’. Allison was a sculptor, who made a head of Nelson Mandela, sold to raise funds for the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

This is a complete transcript of an interview carried out as part of a research project on the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, conducted by Dr Matt Graham (History programme, University of Dundee) and Dr Christopher Fevre (International Studies Group, University of the Free State) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2021.1976154

Tony Dykes first became involved in Southern Africa in 1979 when he joined the staff of the World University Service, which arranged international scholarships for black South Africans. As a London Borough of Camden councillor from 1982 he supported the Council’s policy of boycotting South African products. After he became Council Leader in 1986 he worked closely with the Anti-Apartheid Movement, providing event venues and supporting its campaigns. He served as the Director of ACTSA from 2007 to 2018.

This is a complete transcript of an interview carried out as part of a research project on the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, conducted by Dr Matt Graham (History programme, University of Dundee) and Dr Christopher Fevre (International Studies Group, University of the Free State) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2021.1976154

Iain Whyte volunteered at Christian Action as a school student in London and attended the first meeting of the Boycott Movement in June 1959. He was a student at Glasgow University in the early 1960s and joined Glasgow Anti-Apartheid Committee. He was later ordained as a Church of Scotland minister and served as the Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement’s Religious Liaison Officer and the convenor of the Church of Scotland’s Africa Committee. Iain has researched and written on enslavement and the abolitionist movement and more recently campaigned for solidarity with Palestinians.

This is a complete transcript of an interview carried out as part of a research project on the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, conducted by Dr Matt Graham (History programme, University of Dundee) and Dr Christopher Fevre (International Studies Group, University of the Free State) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2021.1976154