Category Archives: Archival research

LGBT activists in the anti-apartheid struggle

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Gavin Brown

The second article that Gavin has written for the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre for Memory and Learning focused on the role of LGBT activists in 1980s’ anti-apartheid campaigning. After the end of apartheid, South Africa became the first country in the … Continue reading →

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Adelaide Tambo and the politics of care

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Gavin Brown

Gavin Brown has recently written some articles for the website of the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre for Memory and Learning in London – the museum planned for the site of the former London ANC offices on Penton Street in Islington. The … Continue reading →

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Interview with Zephaniah Mothopeng

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Gavin Brown

What feels very current in the interview is Mothopeng’s repeated insistence that opposition to apartheid was not just about civil rights or democracy, but was fundamentally a struggle to decolonize South Africa Continue reading →

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Zephania Mothopeng in London, 1989

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Gavin Brown

Some time ago, we wrote about the rally organised in London in July 1989 at which Zephania Mothopeng, the President of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania spoke. Thanks to friends in the Netherlands who were previously involved with the Azania … Continue reading →

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Viva Carol, our convenor. No one tougher, no one meaner

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Gavin Brown

Carol Brickley, the Convenor of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group throughout the 12 years of its existence, died in September. Carol was central to the formation of City Group and her revolutionary communist politics played a key role in … Continue reading →

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Non-Stop Picket in the ‘Official’ Mandela Exhibition

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Gavin Brown

On 8 February 2019 a new ‘official’ exhibition about Mandela’s life in London’s Waterloo. The exhibition has been organised by one of Mandela’s grandsons and pitches itself in the following terms: Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition is the major new global … Continue reading →

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Nelson Mandela: The Centenary Exhibition (impact and refections)

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Gavin Brown

On 17 July 2018, to celebrate the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, a free exhibition opens at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London’s Southbank Centre, in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The exhibition mostly charts Mandela’s … Continue reading →

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Mementos of Steve Kitson

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Gavin Brown

Sunday 12 November 2017 marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Steven Kitson. Steve was born in 1957 as the eldest child of the South African communists and anti-apartheid activists David and Norma Kitson. In the 1980s, he became … Continue reading →

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A suitable anniversary: youth and student action to close apartheid’s embassy

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Gavin Brown

It is a joyful coincidence that our book Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid has been published on 19 October 2017. On this day, thirty-two years ago, hundreds of students and other young people took mass direct action … Continue reading →

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“It was a dark and stormy night” (against apartheid)

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Gavin Brown

This weekend England is remembering the 30th anniversary of “The Great Storm” of 1987. On the night of 15 October, the South of England and France’s Atlantic coast were hit by one of the most powerful storms in living memory. … Continue reading →

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