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Former Robben Island prisoner Joseph Mdluli was killed by South African Security Police on 19 March 1976, the day after he was detained under the Terrorism Act. This picket by 300 ANC and AAM supporters on 9 April was the climax of a three-day protest against his death outside South Africa House. In the photograph are Bishops Richard Wood and Colin Winter.

Agenda for the AAM’s first women’s conference, held in April 1976. It was attended by 150 people from women’s organisations, trade unions and church groups. Speakers included former South African political prisoners Dulcie September and Joyce Sikakane, Labour minister Margaret Jackson and Pauline Webb from the Methodist Church Overseas Division.

The AAM held its first women’s conference in April 1976. It was attended by 150 people from women’s organisations, trade unions and church groups. Speakers included former South African political prisoners Dulcie September and Joyce Sikakane, Ethel de Keyser from the AAM, Labour minister Margaret Jackson and Pauline Webb from the Methodist Church Overseas Division.

Over 150 women attended an AAM conference on Women Under Apartheid on 24 April 1976. Speakers included Dulcie September and Joyce Sikakane from South Africa, Ethel de Keyser from the AAM, representatives of the NUS and the trade union AUEW (TASS), and Methodist Pauline Webb.

Over 150 women attended an AAM conference on Women Under Apartheid on 24 April 1976. Speakers included Dulcie September and Joyce Sikakane from South Africa, Ethel de Keyser from the AAM, representatives of the NUS and the trade union AUEW (TASS), and Methodist Pauline Webb.

Poster produced for the AAM conference on ‘Women Under Apartheid’ held in London on 24 April 1976. The speakers at the conference were former political prisoners Dulcie September and Joyce Sikakane, Ethel de Keyser from the AAM, representatives of the NUS and the trade union AUEW (TASS), and Methodist Pauline Webb. 

The AAM carried out detailed research into the loopholes in the arms embargo imposed by the 1974–79 Labour government against South Africa. This memorandum showed how the South African Defence Force was obtaining a wide range of British military equipment in spite of the embargo.

Leaflet publicising an AAM meeting on 12 May 1976 asking the British government to state that the execution of guerrilla fighters by the illegal Smith regime was murder. The meeting was disrupted by the far-right National Front.