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From 1990 negotiations for a new South African constitution were threatened by violence and repression and the media made much of ‘black-on-black’ violence. The AAM recognised that the responsibility for the violence rested ultimately with the apartheid regime and launched a campaign on the theme ‘Tell de Klerk: Stop the Violence and Repression’.

Leaflet publicising an AAM appeal to the trade union movement for an Emergency Fund for its campaign for peace and democracy in the early 1990s. The fund was sponsored by the TUC.

This memorandum to the Foreign Office and Overseas Development Administration described the impact of apartheid on the countries of the Southern African region. It argued that Britain had a special responsibility to help them overcome the legacy of aggression and destabilisation.

In the early 1990s the AAM Black Solidarity Committee distributed this leaflet to British black organisations. It asked them to support their brothers and sisters struggling for freedom in Southern Africa by either joining AAM campaigns or organising independently. It offered to help them set up direct links with the liberation movements.

In February 1992 President de Klerk visited Britain shortly after a whites-only referendum in South Africa on whether constitutional talks should continue. Outside a rugby match at Twickenham, AAM supporters told him the white minority had no right to veto a democratic constitution.

In the early 1990s there were moves to desegregate sport in South Africa and South Africa was readmitted to the International Olympic Committee. But the new non-racial National and Olympic Sports Congress withdrew its support from this all-white rugby tour of Britain. This leaflet advertised a demonstration in support of non-racial rugby outside the Twickenham rugby ground.

The AAM Freedom Bus was destroyed by unknown arsonists in February 1992. The bus toured Britain asking the British public to support the demand for one person one vote in South Africa after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990. In the photo AAM staff member Gerard Omasta-Milsom is surveying the wreckage. 

In the early 1990s the AAM debated the role of international solidarity after the end of apartheid. The AAM Black and Ethnic Minorities Committee convened this consultation conference to discuss the special role of black and ethnic minorities in future solidarity action.