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Monthly Archives: March 2013
The Poll Tax Riot and the burning of the South African Embassy II
Last year, I wrote about how the South African Embassy was attacked, with its windows smashed and a tourist display set ablaze, during the Poll Tax Riot in Trafalgar Square on 31 March 1990. Recently we have obtained new photos … Continue reading
Surveillance of anti-apartheid activists revealed
After the exposure of long-term police infiltration of environmental and anti-capitalist activist networks over the last couple of years, the idea that the British police monitored anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s is hardly a surprise. However, two publications from March … Continue reading
“Pik off Botha”: attempting to arrest the South African Foreign Minister
On the evening of Wednesday 15 March 1989, South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha visited the South African Embassy in London for ‘secret’ talks with his British counterpart, Geoffrey Howe. The City of London Anti-Apartheid Group (and the national Anti-Apartheid … Continue reading
Non-Stop Picket temporarily interrupted
Although the Metropolitan Police tried many tactics to curtail the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in the late 1980s, the Picket never had to endure the frequent eviction attempts that have characterised life at other long-term protest camps. … Continue reading
City Group: disaffiliated over geography, expelled for politics
On 23 February 1985 the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group ceased to be an officially recognised local group of the national Anti-Apartheid Movement. This was the culmination of more than two years of growing political tensions between the leadership of … Continue reading
Non-Stop Against Apartheid 