Briefing papers prepared for the conference on ‘Children Apartheid and Repression’ held in London in 1988. The papers showed how children suffered from the impact of apartheid on education, health, the law, social work and architecture.
This weekend conference was part of a drive to attract more young people into the Anti-Apartheid Movement. It was attended by 200 young people and students. It included workshops in practical campaigning skills and led to the recruitment of school students and others into local anti-apartheid groups.
Over 60 British companies withdrew from South Africa in 1986–88. This report examines the reasons behind disinvestment and its impact on the South African economy.
Poster publicising an anti-apartheid conference organised by a coalition of groups in south London in April 1988.
South Africa’s rule over Namibia was illegal under international law. The AAM focused on this in calling for the British government to support UN mandatory sanctions against the apartheid regime.
On 4 May 1978 South African troops massacred over 600 Namibian refugees at Kassinga in southern Angola. Hundreds more were abducted and detained at a South African military base in northern Namibia. This poster commemorated the tenth anniversary of the massacre.
Trade union support for anti-apartheid activities was especially strong in Scotland. This conference took place in May 1988, as the apartheid government stepped up its attempts to intimidate South African and Namibian trade unionists. It discussed how to involve Scottish trade union members in AAM campaigns and how individual unions could support their sister unions in Southern Africa.
In 1988 Local Authorities Against Apartheid (LAAA) organised a conference to discuss positive ways in which British organisations could support the development of the frontline states in Southern Africa. The key speaker at the conference was Jorge Rebelo from FRELIMO.
