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E S Reddy was the Secretary of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and Director of the UN Centre against Apartheid. From 1964 he worked closely with the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Under his direction the Centre played an important international role, liaising with national anti-apartheid groups to organise conferences and seminars, produce information material and launch international anti-apartheid campaigns.

In this clip E S Reddy talks about the significance of Britain to the apartheid regime in South Africa and vice versa.

E S Reddy was the Secretary of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and Director of the UN Centre against Apartheid. From 1964 he worked closely with the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Under his direction the Centre played an important international role, liaising with national anti-apartheid groups to organise conferences and seminars, produce information material and launch international anti-apartheid campaigns.

This is a complete transcript of an interview carried out in 2000 by Håkan Thörn.

The Anti-Apartheid Movement’s badge was first worn by people protesting against the Sharpeville massacre outside South Africa House in March 1960. 

Badge produced for the the AAM’s campaign for the boycott of South African goods, relaunched by a fortnight of action, 16–30 June 1980. 

In 1978 the UN Security Council passed Resolution 435 setting out a plan for transition to Namibian independence. After ten years of negotiations between the Western Contact Group of five UN Security Council members and South Africa, agreement was reached on implementation of the plan in December 1988. Namibia held democratic elections in November 1989 and celebrated its independence on 21 March 1990.