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AAM activists, miners from Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire and Women against Pit Closures protested against a visit by a delegation from the South African coal industry on 21 April 1988. The delegation had come to London to lobby against coal sanctions against South Africa.

The ‘Children, Apartheid and Repression in South Africa’ conference held in London in April 1988 was a follow-up to an international conference held in Harare in 1987. It examined how professional groups could support children in South Africa and wider anti-apartheid campaigns. The conference gave a big boost to anti-apartheid campaigning among British healthworkers, social workers, lawyers, architects and teachers.

Briefing papers prepared for the conference on ‘Children Apartheid and Repression’ held in London in 1988. The papers showed how children suffered from the impact of apartheid on education, health, the law, social work and architecture.

This weekend conference was part of a drive to attract more young people into the Anti-Apartheid Movement. It was attended by 200 young people and students. It included workshops in practical campaigning skills and led to the recruitment of school students and others into local anti-apartheid groups.

Over 60 British companies withdrew from South Africa in 1986–88. This report examines the reasons behind disinvestment and its impact on the South African economy.

Poster publicising an anti-apartheid conference organised by a coalition of groups in south London in April 1988. 

South Africa’s rule over Namibia was illegal under international law. The AAM focused on this in calling for the British government to support UN mandatory sanctions against the apartheid regime.  

On 4 May 1978 South African troops massacred over 600 Namibian refugees at Kassinga in southern Angola. Hundreds more were abducted and detained at a South African military base in northern Namibia. This poster commemorated the tenth anniversary of the massacre.