Protesters in Southampton demonstrated against the import of uranium from Namibia through the city’s docks in February 1989. The protest was organised by Southampton AA Group and local supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Green Party.
Hackney AA Group organised regular pickets of the local Shell garage and campaigned to stop the local Well Street branch of Tesco stocking South African goods. It presented a card celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, signed by hundreds of Hackney residents, to Adelaide and Oliver Tambo and organised its own birthday party for Mandela. The Group's annual report recorded a big membership increase to around 430 national and local members.
Regional anti-apartheid committees organised 18 area conferences all over Britain to mobilise support for the AAM’s 'Boycott Apartheid 89’ campaign. This meeting in Sheffield was for activists in Yorkshire and Humberside, north-east England.
This letter, dated January 1989, relaunched Hackney Community Against Apartheid, first formed in 1987. It asked local community organisations to come together to support the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign.
This letter from Islington AA Group asked for support for pickets of the local Chapel Market branch of Sainsbury’s, planned as part of the AAM’s national ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign. It also appealed for cash to pay for an advertisement in the Islington Gazette in response to an ad from a group calling itself the Social Democrats against Terrorism, attacking the ANC.
This issue of Bath AA Group’s Newsletter proposed a programme for local activity in support of the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign. It publicised regular pickets of Sainsbury’s and a role-playing workshop for new members to help them deal with ‘unfriendly comments’.
Anti-apartheid supporters in Maidstone, Kent asked shoppers to boycott Cape Fruit as part of the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 89’ campaign. All over Britain local AA groups talked to shoppers and motorists outside supermarkets and Shell garages.
Local AA groups all over Britain organised activities as part of the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign. Tyneside AA Group asked the supermarket chain William Laws to reinstate a local worker sacked for refusing to handle South African fruit. This leaflet publicised its Boycott Conference and a fundraising concert for workers on strike at BTR in South Africa.
