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Anti-apartheid supporters in Penzance, Cornwall ask passers-by not to bank with Barclays in February 1986.

Over 500 women demonstrated outside the South Africa Embassy on International Women’s Day, 8 March 1986. They called for the release of Theresa Ramashamola, sentenced to death by the apartheid regime, and sanctions against apartheid. They also demanded immediate independence for Namibia.

Demonstrators at Twickenham protested against the inclusion of Springbok rugby players in one of the teams in the International Rugby Board centenary match on 19 April 1986. Springbok supporters came from South Africa to Twickenham and Cardiff Arms Park for the centenary. In Cardiff, Wales AAM organised a big protest at the centenary game held on 16 April.

A South African Springbok rugby supporter taunts anti-apartheid demonstrators at Twickenham. The demonstrators were protesting against the inclusion of Springboks in a team taking part in the International Rugby Board centenary match on 19 April 1986. The Springboks were sponsored by the all-white South African Rugby Board. Springbok supporters came from South Africa to Twickenham and Cardiff Arms Park for the centenary.

SATIS (Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society) held a vigil for the Sharpeville Six on the steps of St Martin’s in the Fields in April 1986. The Six, five men and one woman, were sentenced to death in December 1985 for taking part in a demonstration at which a black deputy mayor was killed. They were reprieved in July 1988 after spending two and a half years on death row.

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

Two thousand Wales AAM supporters marched through Cardiff demanding that the British government impose sanctions against South Africa on 27 June 1986. The march followed a report by the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group mission to South Africa that concluded that Commonwealth countries should impose sanctions. It was timed to coincide with the AAM Festival of Freedom in London the following day.

Two thousand Wales AAM supporters marched through Cardiff demanding that the British government impose sanctions against South Africa on 27 June 1986. The march followed a report by the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group mission to South Africa that concluded that Commonwealth countries should impose sanctions. It was timed to coincide with the AAM Festival of Freedom in London the following day.