Discover how international tennis associations colluded with apartheid in Saleem Badat's new book Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-Racial International Tennis Tour. Professor Badat will talk about his book at SOAS on 26 June. You
...Don't miss The Only White, a play about John Harris, a member of the African Resistance Movement, who was hanged by the apartheid regime for planting a bomb at Johannesburg Railway Station in 1964. Written by Gail Louw it is at the Chelsea Theatre, from
...Strike!, Tracey Ryan's brilliant play about the Dublin shopworkers who refused to sell South African fruit in 1984 will run at the Southwark Playhouse, 13 April–6 May. Plans are ongoing for a nationwide tour. Tickets for the May Day performance on
...The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation is making a final push in its £150,000 appeal for a statue of Nelson Mandela in Glasgow's Nelson Mandela Place. The statue will commemorate Mandela's visit to Glasgow in October 1993 to receive in
...Liverpool will celebrate Mandela Day 18 July with a week-long programme of celebrations, including a children's parade down Princes Boulevard, civic reception, conversation with the Mandela family, gala dinner, culminating in a Freedom Festival on 23
...A new education resource from the London Recruits tells the story of some of the young people who went to South Africa undercover to support the anti-apartheid freedom struggle. It also presents an illustrated history of the above-ground
Ruth Mompati, who died in Cape Town on 12 May, served as the ANC’s representative in Britain in the early 1980s. She earned wide respect at a time when apartheid was not such a big issue as it later became. She travelled the length and breadth of
A new exhibition telling the story of how the people of Dundee campaigned against apartheid will be on show at Dundee Central Library, 28 April to 20 May. Dundee was one of nine British local authorities that made Nelson Mandela an honorary
...Lord Bob Hughes, former Chair of the AAM and President of ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa) died aged 90 on 7 January 2022. He made an enormous contribution to the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, and was respected and loved by all who
Denis Goldberg died in Cape Town on 29 April. Denis was arrested in 1963 with Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders and spent 22 years in prison in Pretoria. On his release in 1985 he was forced to leave South Africa and came to London. He continued his
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