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Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement held this vigil in the aftermath of the massacre at Boipatong in June 1992. It called for international monitors to go to South Africa to help stop the violence and for the setting up of an interim government as a first step to a new democratic constitution.

In June 1992 negotiations for a new constitution broke down after a massacre of township residents at Boipatong in the southern Transvaal. At least 7,000 people died in political violence between 1990 and 1992. The killings were carried out by undercover units of the South African police and army and Zulu supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party. This leaflet endorsed the ANC’s demands for specific actions to end the violence.

Birmingham AA Group collected signatures to a petition asking the British government to back an international commission on the Boipatong massacre in the summer of 1992. Its newsletter also publicised local action in support of the general strike called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).

Sheffield AA Group published this newsletter publicising its collecton of funds for victims of violence in Natal in 1992. Yorkshire and Humberside was paired with Natal in the AAM’s twining programme.

Anti-apartheid movements in Western Europe worked together in the 1990s to pressure the European Community to support democracy in South Africa. This leaflet publicised a march to lobby a meeting of EC Foreign Ministers held in September 1992, in Welwyn Garden City, near London.

In the first three years of F W Klerk’s presidency, at least 7,000 South Africans were killed in political violence perpetrated by the Inkatha Freedom Party and undercover forces. In its September 1992 Month of Action for Peace and Democracy, the AAM called on de Klerk to take measures to stop the killings.

TUC General Secretary Norman Willis with shopworkers leader Garfield Davies and Rodney Bickerstaffe, General Secretary of the public sector workers union NUPE, at the AAM’s stall at the 1992 TUC annual congress.

These women were part of the Europe-wide demonstration outside a meeting of European Community Foreign Ministers held at Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire on 12 September 1992. They asked the EC to press de Klerk to take measures to end the violence in South Africa, so that negotiations for a democratic constitution could go ahead.