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Many people assumed the release of Mandela and the lifting of bans on the ANC and PAC meant an end to apartheid. This AAM recruitment leaflet stated that the pillars of apartheid were still in place. It argued that democracy meant one person one vote in a unitary South Africa and that free political activity was a prerequisite of negotiations for majority rule.

In 1990 a Newcastle branch of the William Low supermarket chain sacked a young worker, Clare Morgan, for refusing to handle South African products. Tyneside AA Group distributed this leaflet to shoppers asking them to boycott the store until it stopped stocking goods from South Africa.

Card advertising a sculpture made to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s release from prison.

The Namibia Support Committee made regular appeals for medical supplies for Namibian refugees. This leaflet listed equipment and medicines needed by a Maternity and Childcare Clinic set up the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) for Namibian refugees in southern Angola. Local AA groups and the AAM’s Women’s and Health Committees held collections for the appeal.

AAM President Trevor Huddleston asked British local councils to help expose the undemocratic nature of the local government proposals put forward by the Nationalist Party in the negotiations for a new constitution. It also asked them to prepare to help South Africans build a non-racial local government system.

This open letter was published after crisis talks between President de Klerk and the ANC on 12 February 1991. It asked Prime Minister John Major to press de Klerk to agree to the setting up of a constituent assembly and interim government as key steps towards a democratic constitution.

Leaflet distributed by Notting Hill AA Group in west London as part of the national AAM campaign to pressure the South African government to release all political prisoners and stop fomenting ‘black on black’ violence.

Leeds Women Against Apartheid was formed in 1986 to bring together women in support of their sisters in South Africa and Namibia. The group reached out to women’s organisations in West Yorkshire, raising funds for women in Southern Africa, boycotting apartheid goods and holding day schools publicising the situation of women under apartheid. It was linked to a women’s group in Soshunguve township, near Pretoria. This poster advertised a fundraising skills auction in 1991.