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Demonstration outside the John Player rugby cup final at Twickenham on 28 April in protest against the Rugby Football Union’s tour of South Africa in May–June 1984. Student activists demonstrated at Heathrow on the day of the team’s departure. The tour went ahead in spite of a long-running campaign against it. The Conservative government expressed its opposition to the tour but took no action to stop it.

Hackney Council press release announcing the renaming of an east London housing block as Mandela House in 1984. Many British local authorities named roads, public gardens and housing estates in honour of Nelson Mandela in the 1980s as part of the campaign for his release.

Wales AAM ran a long campaign to persuade the Welsh Rugby Union to break off its links with the South African Rugby Board. This pamphlet made the case for a complete break with apartheid sport. The Welsh Rugby Union finally severed its ties with South Africa in1989.

Leaflet advertising an interdenominational meeting in Bristol Cathedral on the immorality of apartheid. The speaker was the AAM’s President Archbishop Trevor Huddleston and the meeting was sponsored by the Anglican, Catholic, Baptist and Methodist churches.

Lambeth Borough Council in south London published this review of the implementation of the Anti-Apartheid Declaration it adopted in 1984. It located the Declaration within the Councilís wider anti-racist and equal opportunities policies. The review showed the practical problems involved in ensuring that the Council did not make purchases from companies with South African interests.

At a meeting at the Africa Centre in London on 24 May 1984, United Democratic Front (UDF) leader Mohammed Valli Moosa brought greetings from the UDF to the AAM. He said the UDF opposed President P W Botha’s forthcoming trip to Britain in June. Valli Moosa’s visit was the start of close cooperation between the AAM and the UDF in the 1980s.

The Greater London Council and the AAM held a press conference on 30 May 1984 to protest against the Conservative government’s invitation to South African President P W Botha to visit Britain. The GLC played a big role in the campaign against the visit, with national press ads, an anti-apartheid banner outside County Hall and an exhibition ‘Signs of Apartheid’ at the Royal Festival Hall. It sponsored a music festival in Jubilee Gardens after a march through London on 2 June. Left to right: Abdul Minty, Trevor Huddleston, GLC Labour Councillors Paul Boateng, Ken Livingstone, Bob Hughes and SDP-Liberal Alliance GLC Councillor Adrian Slade.

Three local councillors from London’s black community express their opposition to Botha’s visit to Britain in June 1984. Black organisations were prominent in the opposition to the visit. They formed a special mobilising committee and there were many articles in the London black press. The West Indian Standing Conference held on all-night vigil on 1–2 June.