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Westminster Council staff protested outside Westminster City Hall against a visit by apartheid Mayor of Johannesburg Eddy Magid in 1984. Mayor Magid had a private meeting with the Mayor of Westminster, John Bull.

In 1984 a Dunnes supermarket shopworker in Dublin, Mary Manning, was sacked for refusing to check out Outspan oranges from South Africa. Eleven of her colleagues went on strike to demand her reinstatement. In the photograph are Dunnes strikers Cathryn O’Reilly and Mary Manning with GLC members Ken Livingstone and Valerie Wise.

In the autumn of 1984 the AAM and Namibia Support Committee campaigned to raise Namibia’s public profile in Britain and change government policy. A Declaration calling for ‘Namibia: Independence Now!’ was endorsed by over 400 organisations and 6,000 individuals. This leaflet publicised a lobby of Parliament coordinated by the AAM as part of the campaign.

This leaflet asked AAM supporters to press the British government to intervene with South Africa on behalf of three young ANC militants sentenced to death. Benjamin Moloise was wrongly accused of shooting a security policeman. In spite of a long-running campaign he was executed on 18 October 1985. Clarence Payi and Sipho Xulu were convicted of killing an alleged informer. Their appeal was rejected and they were hanged on 9 September 1986.

Wooden badge calling for the release of Nelson Mandela.

Poster connecting the purchase of South African fruit with lynchings in the American south by quoting the Billie Holliday song ‘Southern trees bear a strange fruit’.

Disabled People Against Apartheid campaigned for South Africa’s exclusion from the Stoke Mandeville International Games, forerunner of the Paralympics. The group was formed in 1981 after sportswoman Maggie Jones was banned from the European Paraplegic Table Tennis Champonships for distributing anti-apartheid leaflets. This leaflet advertises a demonstration against the South African team at the 1985 Games. Later the same year South Africa was suspended from future Games.

Leaflet highlighting the failure of the Western contact group to secure the independence of Namibia. The AAM argued that UN mandatory sanctions should be imposed against South Africa to pressure it into withdrawing from Namibia.