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Sheffield AA Group published this newsletter publicising its collecton of funds for victims of violence in Natal in 1992. Yorkshire and Humberside was paired with Natal in the AAM’s twining programme.

This edition of Hackney AA Group’s newsletter, Nelson’s Column, warned of civil war in South Africa after the Boipatong massacre. It contrasted the ANC’s aim of a united democratic South Africa with the de Klerk government’s attempts to entrench white privilege in a new constitution. It reported that Hackney AA Group had joined the local Anti-Racist Alliance.

Anti-apartheid movements in Western Europe worked together in the 1990s to pressure the European Community to support democracy in South Africa. This leaflet publicised a march to lobby a meeting of EC Foreign Ministers held in September 1992, in Welwyn Garden City, near London.

In the first three years of F W Klerk’s presidency, at least 7,000 South Africans were killed in political violence perpetrated by the Inkatha Freedom Party and undercover forces. In its September 1992 Month of Action for Peace and Democracy, the AAM called on de Klerk to take measures to stop the killings.

TUC General Secretary Norman Willis with shopworkers leader Garfield Davies and Rodney Bickerstaffe, General Secretary of the public sector workers union NUPE, at the AAM’s stall at the 1992 TUC annual congress.

These women were part of the Europe-wide demonstration outside a meeting of European Community Foreign Ministers held at Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire on 12 September 1992. They asked the EC to press de Klerk to take measures to end the violence in South Africa, so that negotiations for a democratic constitution could go ahead.

In September 1992 the AAM asked its supporters to take part in a month of action to press the de Klerk government to agree to an interim government and constituent assembly. It called for the maintenance of international sanctions and boycotts.  On 1 September the London AA Committee picketed Sainsbury’s headquarters, because Sainsbury’s sourced its ‘own label’ wines from South Africa. During the month AAM supporters distributed thousands of leaflets outside supermarkets asking shoppers to boycott South African goods.

In September 1992, in the aftermath of the massacre at Boipatong, the AAM organised a month of events calling for international support for negotiations for peace and democracy in South Africa. It argued that the consumer boycott must continue until the apartheid government agreed to a democratic constitution. This leaflet advertised a picket of the head office of Sainsbury’s supermarket chain.