po074. Stop the Namibian Uranium Contracts

po074. Stop the Namibian Uranium Contracts

In the 1970s and 1980s Britain imported uranium from RTZ’s Rossing mine in Namibia in contravention of UN resolutions that said the country’s natural resources should only be sold with the consent of the UN Council for Namibia. The uranium was imported under contracts signed in the late 1960s by the UK Atomic Energy Authority and Rio Tinto Zinc. Lord Carrington, featured in the poster, was a Director of RTZ and British Foreign Secretary,1979–1982.

Category: Posters
Author: National Union of Students, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Namibia Support Committee
Copyright: AAM Archives Committee
Holding Institution: AAM Archive, Bodleian Library
Catalogue: MSS AAM 2512/1
Design: Jane Ray
Date/Year: Early 1980s