Namibia

In December 1988 agreement was reached on a process leading to Namibian independence. Elections were scheduled for 7–11 November. AAM President Trevor Huddleston launched a British appeal for support for the South West Africa People’s Organisation’s (SWAPO) election campaign in the House of Commons in April 1989. The campaign was widely supported, including by British trade unions and the Labour and Liberal Parties.

In December 1988 agreement was reached on a process leading to Namibian independence. Elections were scheduled for 7–11 November. AAM President Trevor Huddleston launched a British appeal for support for the South West Africa People’s Organisation’s (SWAPO) election campaign in the House of Commons in April 1989. 

In December 1988 agreement was reached on a process leading to Namibian independence. Elections were scheduled for 7–11 November 1989. AAM President Trevor Huddleston launched a British appeal for support for the South West Africa People’s Organisation’s (SWAPO) election campaign in the House of Commons in April 1989. ‘A Night for Namibia’ was one of many events held to raise funds for the appeal.

On 4 May 1978 over 600 Namibian refugees were massacred by South African soldiers at Kassinga in southern Angola. This exhibition and fundraising social was held on the eleventh anniversary of the massacre. Seven hundred flowers were displayed in the shape of Africa and Glenys Kinnock unveiled a commemorative picture by an exiled Namibian. The event raised over £1,000 for rehabilitation projects in Namibia and Angola.

On 4 May 1978 over 600 Namibian refugees were massacred by South African soldiers at Kassinga in southern Angola. This fundraising evening was held on the eleventh anniversary of the massacre in 1989. It raised over £1,000 for rehabilitation projects in Namibia and Angola.

In May 1978 the South African Defence Force massacred over 600 people at a SWAPO refugee camp at Kassinga in Angola. They included 120 children. This leaflet accused Shell of being complicit in the killings because they supplied fuel for the SADF in its operations in Namibia and Angola. The leaflet was distributed on the 11th anniversary of the massacre in 1989.

In December 1988 South Africa signed the UN Plan for the Independence of Namibia, which led to the holding of free elections in November 1989. With the Namibia Support Committee, the AAM set up the Namibia Emergency Campaign (NEC) to mobilise British support for Namibian independence and solidarity with the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO). On 13 May 1989 the NEC held a conference where 200 delegates were briefed by SWAPO Labour Secretary Jason Angula.

Lawyers Against Apartheid’s 1989 Bulletin called for captured Umkhonto we Sizwe combatants to be treated as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. It also focused on South Africa’s violation of the Namibian peace accord.