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The AAM Black and Ethnic Minorities Committee organised this fundraising social for delegates to the September 1991 meeting of the AAM’s National Committee.

Throughout the negotiations for a democratic constitution from 1991 to 1993 the AAM asked supporters to maintain the boycott of South African goods. It argued that continued pressure was needed on the South African government to force it to agree to a genuinely democratic constitution. The UN finally lifted the boycott in September 1993 after it was agreed to set up a transitional executive council. 

From 1990 negotiations for a new South African constitution were threatened by violence and repression and the media made much of ‘black-on-black’ violence. The AAM recognised that the responsibility for the violence rested ultimately with the apartheid regime and launched a campaign on the theme ‘Tell de Klerk: Stop the Violence and Repression’.

Leaflet publicising an AAM appeal to the trade union movement for an Emergency Fund for its campaign for peace and democracy in the early 1990s. The fund was sponsored by the TUC.

This memorandum to the Foreign Office and Overseas Development Administration described the impact of apartheid on the countries of the Southern African region. It argued that Britain had a special responsibility to help them overcome the legacy of aggression and destabilisation.

In the early 1990s the AAM Black Solidarity Committee distributed this leaflet to British black organisations. It asked them to support their brothers and sisters struggling for freedom in Southern Africa by either joining AAM campaigns or organising independently. It offered to help them set up direct links with the liberation movements.

In February 1992 President de Klerk visited Britain shortly after a whites-only referendum in South Africa on whether constitutional talks should continue. Outside a rugby match at Twickenham, AAM supporters told him the white minority had no right to veto a democratic constitution.

In the early 1990s there were moves to desegregate sport in South Africa and South Africa was readmitted to the International Olympic Committee. But the new non-racial National and Olympic Sports Congress withdrew its support from this all-white rugby tour of Britain. This leaflet advertised a demonstration in support of non-racial rugby outside the Twickenham rugby ground.