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The platform at the AAM’s 1988 annual general meeting, held in Sheffield. The banner reproduces a woodcut by Namibian woodcut artist John Muafangejo.

The 1988 Week of Action on Namibia, 27 October–3 November, took place as talks on the implementation of the UN Plan for Namibia were entering the final stage. Hundreds protested outside South Africa House on 1 November, after South Africa reneged on the original timetable for the plan. A highlight of the week was the Seminar on Children, Apartheid and Repression in Namibia held on 29 October. The SWAPO flag was flown over many town halls and local AA groups held meetings calling for pressure on South Africa to implement the UN Plan.

As talks on the implementation of the UN Plan for Namibia entered their final stage, campaigning on Namibia became top priority for the AAM. This bilingual leaflet publicised a march through the centre of Cardiff organised by Wales AAM.

Over 400 people attended a conference on Children in Namibia at the headquarters of the National Union of Teachers in London on 29 October 1988. Participants heard first-hand accounts of torture and repression from young Namibians. Speakers included a paediatrician from the northern Namibian war zone and Ignatius Shigwameni of the National Namibian Students Organisation.

Many new local AA groups were formed after the publicity surrounding the AAM’s Nelson Mandela tribute concert at Wembley Stadium in June 1988. This leaflet publicised a performance by the women’s grop ‘Sisters of the Long March’ and announced the formation of two new AA groups in north-east England at Wansbeck and Chester le Street.

Poster advertising a meeting about South African and Namibian political prisoners on 11 October, the day designated by the UN as a day of solidarity with Southern African political prisoners.

This leaflet advertised a dayschool held in 1988 to inform British women about the living conditions of women in Southern Africa. It also aimed create greater awareness of the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle within the AAM.

Badge produced by anti-apartheid supporters in Guernsey, Channel Islands.