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Leaflet publicising a protest outside South Africa House on the third anniversary of the State of Emergency imposed by the apartheid government on 12 June 1986.

Leaflet asking Dundonians to boycott South African goods. The leaflet publicised a day of action in Edinburgh on 22 March and a picket of Dundee-based supermarket chain William Low on 29 March. It also advertised a demonstration outside Dundee District Court to support two Dundee AA Group members for allegedly obstructing the police during the group’s weekly picket of Tesco in the Wellgate Shopping Centre. The Group set up the Wellgate Two Defence Campaign to protest against the arrests. The two were later acquitted.

Islington AA Group supporters asked shoppers to boycott South African products outside Sainsbury’s in Holloway Road, north London, on 14 June 1986.

St George’s Place in central Glasgow was renamed Nelson Mandela Place on 16 June 1986. The South African consulate was located on the fifth floor of the Stock Exchange. The photograph shows the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Bob Gray,Glasgow Councillor Pat Chalmers and Essop Pahad from the ANC at the ceremony where the new name was unveiled. After the renaming, the consulate used a post office box number instead of the address.

From the late 1970s the AAM and local AA groups held annual sponsored walks to raise funds for the ANC’s Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania. This sponsor form was for a walk organised by the national Anti-Apartheid Movement.

Poster publicising a week of anti-apartheid events in Lambeth, south London in 1986.

Over 3,500 people lobbied their MPs to support sanctions against South Africa on 17 June 1986. The lobby was organised by the AAM and supported by the TUC, British Council of Churches and the National Union of Students. It was the biggest parliamentary lobby ever held to date on an international issue. Next day, the AAM’s President Bishop Trevor Huddleston led a delegation to meet Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and appealed at a crowded House of Commons press conference for mass action to counteract Howe’s rejection of the AAM’s proposals.

Poster publicising a parliamentary lobby on 17 June 1986 calling on the British government to impose sanctions against South Africa. More than 3,500 people lobbied their MPs askin them to press for a change of policy. The lobby was initiated by the AAM, with support from the TUC, British Council of Churches and the United Nations Association. The summer of 1986 was the high point of the international campaign for sanctions against South Africa.