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1448:. For the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Nelson Mandela's release was a moment of celebration, but it also started an enormously challenging period in which they struggled to maintain the momentum of the 1980s, and sustain public interest in South Africa. Historians Matt Graham and Christopher Fevre have argued that South Africa's transition proved to be the most challenging period in the Anti-Apartheid Movement's existence due to a decline in public interest, a reduction of its membership base, questions about its long-term future as an organisation, a poor financial situation, and the difficulty of explaining the fast-paced negotiations and the political violence to the British public. The Anti-Apartheid Movement assisted the ANC's election campaign through fundraising, lobbying, and public rallies. These activities were part of the international support provided for the ANC's victory in South Africa's 1412:, which hoped to secure his release in time for his 70th birthday in June 1988. There were four elements to "Freedom at 70": the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium on 11 June; a rally in Glasgow to launch the Nelson Mandela Freedom March on 12 June; and the five-week long Freedom March from Glasgow to London, which finished with a rally in Hyde Park on 17 July 1988. These events attracted an unprecedented level of interest in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the struggle against apartheid. For example, the Wembley Stadium concert was attended by about 100,000 people and an estimated 600 million people in more than 60 countries watched the event. 1397:, local council authorities, churches, and trade unions, to demand Mandela's release from prison and campaign for the end of apartheid in South Africa. A notable feature of the campaign across Britain was the renaming of buildings and streets after Nelson Mandela, which resulted in the UK having more streets named after him than anywhere outside of South Africa. The Free Nelson Mandela Campaign gained prominence when Glasgow's local authority gave Mandela the Freedom of the City in 1981, and a further eight cities and councils including Aberdeen, Dundee, and Sheffield followed this lead during the 1980s. 1383:
decided by a majority vote in the General Assembly; to isolate the major trading partners of South Africa by persuading other Western countries to co-operate in action to the greatest feasible extent; and to find ways to promote public opinion and public action against apartheid, especially in the countries which were the main collaborators with the South African regime. This also meant that we built the broadest support for each measure, thereby welcoming co-operation rather than alienating governments and organisations which were not yet prepared to support sanctions or armed struggle.
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AAM as ‘the basis and heart of the movement’. The British AAM created the overarching campaigns and policies to ensure a consistent anti-apartheid message, but it was the actions of the local groups that ensured they had nationwide coverage. As a result, anti-apartheid campaigns could be implemented in almost every locality, which intensified the visibility and impact. It also allowed the general public multiple opportunities to take individual actions against apartheid through local efforts such as picketing shops and venues. and boycotting products or organisations.
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implications on the economies of South Africa, the UK, the US and the Protectorates. Knowing that the strongest opposition to the application of sanctions came from the West (and within the West, the UK), the Committee made every effort to attract as wide and varied a number of speakers and participants as possible so that the conference findings would be regarded as objective."
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The local groups had a lot of freedom to act against any connections with the apartheid regime in their localities. There were many diverse links to South Africa, and a key role of the local groups was to identify them, and then direct their campaign efforts against them. There existed a huge variety
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The AAM was composed of a national office, local groups, and regional committees, as well as a wide range of affiliations to organisations across civil society. There was also a Scottish Anti-Apartheid Committee (SCAAM) and a Welsh Anti-Apartheid Movement (WAAM) which co-ordinated activities in these
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was "not in favour of trade sanctions partly because, even if fully effective, they would harm the people we are most concerned about; the Africans and those White South Africans who are having to maintain some standard of decency there." Even so, Lisson writes that the "AAM still hoped that the new
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The strength of the anti-apartheid cause in Britain was aided by an extensive network of local and regional AAM groups. Initially these structures existed only in larger urban areas, but by the 1980s, almost every British town and city had an AAM local group. The local groups were described by the
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The AAM structure allowed the movement to engage different constituents at different levels in the broader effort to isolate South Africa. The AAM’s national office was based in London, which was the centre of the movements decision making, where policies were devised, campaigns organised (such as
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occurred on 21 March 1960, when 69 unarmed protesters were shot dead by the South African police. This triggered an intensification of action. The organisation was renamed the "Anti-Apartheid Movement" and instead of just a consumer boycott, the group would now "co-ordinate all the anti-apartheid
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The strategy was to press for a range of measures to isolate the regime, support the liberation movement and inform world public opinion; to continue pressing for effective sanctions as the only means for a peaceful solution, and at the same time to obtain action on other measures which could be
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However, the conference was not successful in persuading the UK to take up economic sanctions against South Africa. Rather, the British government "remained firm in its view that the imposition of sanctions would be unconstitutional "because we do not accept that this situation in South Africa
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and called for imposing economic and other sanctions on South Africa. All Western nations refused to join the committee as members. This boycott of a committee, the first such boycott, happened because it was created by the same General Assembly resolution that called for economic and other
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Following the passage of this resolution, the Anti-Apartheid Movement spearheaded the arrangements for international conference on sanctions to be held in London in April 1964. According to Lisson, "The aim of the Conference was to work out the practicability of economic sanctions and their
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The Conference established the necessity, the legality and the practicability of internationally organised sanctions against South Africa, whose policies were seen to have become a direct threat to peace and security in Africa and the world. Its findings also pointed out that in order to be
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In the 1980s, the international campaign to free Nelson Mandela from prison became a global cause. In close co-operation with the exiled leaders of the ANC, the British Anti-Apartheid Movement increasingly personalised the liberation struggle, with Mandela as its symbolic figurehead. The
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Faced with the failure to persuade the West to impose economic sanctions, in 1966 the AAM formulated a strategy whereby they would shift toward spearheading "an international campaign against apartheid under the auspices of the United Nations." AAM's proposed strategy was approved by the
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in 1965. The declaration was signed by 496 university professors and lecturers from 34 British universities to protest against apartheid and associated violations of academic freedom. They made a special reference to the issue of banning orders against two South African academics named
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The AAM was enthusiastic with the results of the conference for two key reasons. First, because of "the new seriousness with which the use of economic sanctions is viewed." Second, because the AAM was able to meet for the first time with the
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Boycott Barclays or Free Nelson Mandela), and the high-level lobbying of politicians and business leaders occurred. The London office co-ordinated and directed much of the anti-apartheid campaigning across Britain.
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constitutes a threat to international peace and security and we do not in any case believe that sanctions would have the effect of persuading the South African Government to change its policies"."
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and then by the General Assembly. This new partnership formed the basis for all future action against apartheid. The man originally responsible for the new strategy gives this summary:
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work and keep South Africa's apartheid policy in the forefront of British politics". It also campaigned for the total isolation of apartheid South Africa, including economic sanctions.
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Matthew Graham & Christopher Fevre, ‘Mandela’s out so apartheid has finished’: the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, 1990-1994.
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was South Africa's largest foreign investor and South Africa was the UK's third biggest export market. The ANC was still committed to peaceful resistance. Armed struggle through
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member states. In 1962, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling on all member states to impose a trade boycott against South Africa. In 1963, the
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effective, a programme of sanctions would need the active participation of Britain and the US, who were also the main obstacle to the implementation of such a policy.
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We are not asking you, the British people, for anything special. We are just asking you to withdraw your support from apartheid by not buying South African goods.
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Rob Skinner, ‘The Anti-Apartheid Movement: Pressure Group Politics, International Solidarity and Transnational Activism’ in N. Crowson, M. Hilton and J. McKay,
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and other political trials to try to appease Afro-Asian countries and public opinion at home and abroad; by early 1965 the issue of sanctions had lost momentum.
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A major part of the campaign revolved around music, which helped publicise Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle to the British public. In 1984,
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exiles and their supporters. Nelson Mandela was an important person among the many that were anti-apartheid activists. Members included
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The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid: Liberal Humanitarians and Transnational Activists in Britain and the United States, c. 1919-64
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and supporting South Africa's non-white population who were oppressed by the policies of apartheid. The AAM changed its name to
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As a direct consequence of the 70th Birthday Tribute, the Anti-Apartheid Movement membership doubled to nearly 18,000 in 1988.
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Pledge that we shall not apply for or accept academic posts in South African universities which practise racial discrimination.
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and diversity in anti-apartheid campaigning across Britain, which reflected local economic, cultural, and social conditions.
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in 1994, when South Africa achieved majority rule through free and fair elections, in which all races could vote.
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Klein, Genevieve (2009). "The British Anti-Apartheid Movement and Political Prisoner Campaigns, 1973–1980".
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The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity with the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
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This article is about the British organisation. For opposition to apartheid from within South Africa, see
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called for a partial arms ban against South Africa, but this was not mandatory under Chapter VII of the
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We, the (undersigned) professors and lecturers in British universities in consultation with the
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At the UN, Britain consistently refused to accept that the situation in South Africa fell under
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parties. On 28 February 1960, the movement launched a March Month, Boycott Action at a rally in
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Protest against the practice of racial discrimination and its extension to higher education;
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Anti-Apartheid Movement worked with a range of organisations in Britain, such as the
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Labour Government would be more sensitive to the demands of public opinion than the
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successfully enforced strict international economic sanctions against South Africa
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After the first democratic elections in South Africa, the AAM changed its name to
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NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics since 1945
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The AAM scored its first major victory when South Africa was forced to leave the
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The Anti-Apartheid Movement tried to make sanctions an election issue for the
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The boycott attracted widespread support from students, trade unions and the
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Bodleian Library's Catalogue of the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
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Academic Boycott of South Africa: Declaration by British Academics, 1965
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C. Gurney, "A Great Cause: The Origins of the Anti-Apartheid Movement",
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sanctions on South Africa, which at the time the West strongly opposed.
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Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid
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Activists beyond borders advocacy networks in international politics
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International Conference for Economic Sanctions Against South Africa
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Protest against the bans imposed on Professors Simons and Roux;
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The Anti-Apartheid Movement was instrumental in initiating an
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Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society
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Mandela was released in February 1990, which started the
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who succeeded in having South Africa expelled from the
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Anti-Apartheid: A History of the Movement in Britain
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Graham, Matthew; Fevre, Christopher (15 July 2024).
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Index

Boycott Movement
Internal resistance to apartheid
International opposition
apartheid in South Africa

Academic boycott
Sporting boycott
Disinvestment
Constructive engagement
Free South Africa Movement
International anti-apartheid music
International sanctions
Milton King boycotts
UN Resolution 1761
Crime of Apartheid Convention
Gleneagles Agreement
Sullivan principles
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Artists United Against Apartheid
Commonwealth of Nations
Halt All Racist Tours
Organisation of African Unity
TransAfrica
UN Special Committee against Apartheid
1964 Conference for Economic Sanctions
1978 World Conference against Racism
UN Security Council
Resolution 134 (Sharpeville massacre)
Resolution 181 (voluntary arms embargo)

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