Catalogue Number
NMLH.2024.48.5
Object Name
report
Title
'Anti-Apartheid Movement Annual Report of activities & developments. October 1983-September 1984'
Place
UK, South Africa
People
Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), African National Congress (ANC)
Events
Apartheid Regime (South Africa)
Description
A yellowing newspaper report 'Anti-Apartheid Movement Annual Report of activities & developments. October 1983-September 1984'. The organisation logo - a black and white ying-yang symbol with an 'A' on each side is in the top left corner. There is a photograph from an anti-apartheid protest - hundreds of people, many carrying signs saying 'No to Botha!'. There are two banners visible in the march - 'African National Congress of South Africa' and 'Africa Liberation'.
The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) was a British organisation involved in the international movement to oppose the South African apartheid system which was introduced in 1948. Under apartheid only white people could rule, and a strict system of segregation privileged white South Africans and kept Black South Africans as second class citizens who were kept poor and with limited access to social resources and employment opportunities, as well as banning interracial marriages.
AAM began in 1959 following an appeal by Black South African organisers for international consumer boycotts of goods grown in apartheid South Africa to try and pressure the South African government with economic consequences for apartheid. They also co-ordinated the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign with the exiled leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) South African political party. Mandela was freed in 1990, and apartheid ended in 1994 which led to multi-racial general elections that left Mandela as the new president of South Africa.
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