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This poster was produced for the Anti-Apartheid Movement’s ‘Boycott 89’ campaign. Its targets were Cape and Outspan, the brand names used for South African fruit in Britain. Using photomontage, the poster implied that if shoppers purchased South African fruit, they were helping the apartheid regime fund its war machine. The poster was used on 18 March and 24 June 1989, when local activists took part in nationally co-ordinated pickets of shops selling Cape and Outspan products.

The AAM’s Boycott 89 campaign extended the boycott of South African fruit to gold and tourism. Its centrepiece was the Boycott Bandwagon, a bus converted to display exhibition material and show a specially commissioned video about the boycott. It toured 140 towns and cities during the year. The campaign was launched outside Cape Fruit’s London headquarters on 20 February. This brochure included a special pledge form and provided information about the campaign.

As part of the Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign the AAM converted a double-decker bus into a travelling exhibition area and video cinema. During the year the bus visited local communities all over Britain, displaying anti-apartheid material and showing a specially commissioned video, Fruits of Fear, on the consumer boycott.

As part of the Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign the AAM converted a double-decker bus into a travelling exhibition area and video cinema. The bus was launched in London on 8 June, when a group of MPs took a symbolic ride from the House of Commons to the South African Embassy in Trafalgar Square.

T-shirt produced for the AAM’s Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign.

Badge produced for the AAM’s Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign.

Leaflet produced for the AAM’s Boycott 89 campaign. It asked shoppers not to buy Cape or Outspan fruit.

Metal version of the badge produced for the AAM’s Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign.