bar16. Appeal to Barclays account holders

Leaflet explaining why the Anti-Apartheid Movement singled out Barclays Bank in its anti-apartheid boycott campaign. As well as owning South Africa’s biggest high street bank, Barclays operated in illegally occupied Namibia and was undermining sanctions against the illegal Smith regime in Rhodesia. The boycott had succeeded in forcing Barclays to sell the £6 million worth of South African defence bonds it had purchased in 1976.