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Clarence Payi and Sipho Xulu were sentenced to death in February 1985 for killing an alleged informer. In spite of an international campaign for clemency they were executed on 9 September 1986.

Leaflet publicising a protest outside South Africa House on the third anniversary of the State of Emergency imposed by the apartheid government on 12 June 1986.

Leaflet asking Dundonians to boycott South African goods. The leaflet publicised a day of action in Edinburgh on 22 March and a picket of Dundee-based supermarket chain William Low on 29 March. It also advertised a demonstration outside Dundee District Court to support two Dundee AA Group members for allegedly obstructing the police during the group’s weekly picket of Tesco in the Wellgate Shopping Centre. The Group set up the Wellgate Two Defence Campaign to protest against the arrests. The two were later acquitted.

Islington AA Group supporters asked shoppers to boycott South African products outside Sainsbury’s in Holloway Road, north London, on 14 June 1986.

Flyer advertising a meeting to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising at the Co-op Hall, Doncaster. Speakers included representatives of the ANC, SWAPO, the rail union NUR and local branch of the Labour Party Young Socialists. The flyer asked supporters to attend the AAM’s national Festival for Freedom, assembling in Hyde Park on 28 June.

Leaflet advertising a fundraising gig at a north London trade union centre on 27 September 1986. The event was organised by Haringey AA Group and sponsored by the London Borough of Haringey’s Community Arts and Entertainment Department.

St George’s Place in central Glasgow was renamed Nelson Mandela Place on 16 June 1986. The South African consulate was located on the fifth floor of the Stock Exchange. The photograph shows the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Bob Gray,Glasgow Councillor Pat Chalmers and Essop Pahad from the ANC at the ceremony where the new name was unveiled. After the renaming, the consulate used a post office box number instead of the address.

From the late 1970s the AAM and local AA groups held annual sponsored walks to raise funds for the ANC’s Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania. This sponsor form was for a walk organised by the national Anti-Apartheid Movement.