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In January 1987 the AAM launched a campaign for a boycott of Shell products as part of an international campaign to make Shell withdraw from South Africa. This leaflet was published shortly after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. He endorsed the boycott and said that continued economic pressure was necessary to force the apartheid government into negotiations.

Flyer for a rock concert organised by Cheltenham AA Group and sixth form students at Bournside High School, Cheltenham in February 1990. The students set up an anti-apartheid group which held a week of events to raise awareness of apartheid culminating in a debate on sanctions against South Africa in November 1989. The concert raised funds for multiracial schools in South Africa. 

Cheltenham AA Group’s spring 1990 newsletter advertised a national AAM march on 25 March, as well as the London demonstration against the poll tax on 31 March. It welcomed the release of Nelson Mandela, but reflected the general public’s feeling that apartheid was ended by cancelling future meetings because of low attendance.

A week of music and poetry in venues all over London led up to the second Mandela Wembley concert on 16 April 1990. 

Flyer advertising a party and evening of dance music to raise funds for the ANC in March 1990. The evening featured ‘Beat the Border’ with Ugandan musician Geoffrey Oryema.

T-shirt produced for the Wembley Stadium concert held on 16 April 1990 to celebrate the release of Nelson Mandela. Mandela thanked the people of Britain and the world for campaigning for his release. The back of the T-shirt lists the lead artists who performed at the concert.

Two months after his release, Nelson Mandela attended a second Wembley Stadium concert held on 16 April 1990. The concert was attended by a capacity audience of 76,000 people and broadcast around the world. Mandela thanked the hundreds of thousands of people who had campaigned for his freedom and called for the continued isolation of South Africa until it had been transformed into a non-racial democracy.