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Category Archives: Archival research
Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid book manuscript submitted
Today we have finally submitted the manuscript of Youth Activism and Solidarity, our book about the anti-apartheid Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy, to our publishers. The book will now go through a process of peer review. All being … Continue reading
Stopping the Non-Stop Picket, 24 February 1990
Today is the 25th anniversary of the end of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London. The Non-Stop Picket had lasted 1408 days and nights, calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid demands. In the … Continue reading
Disobedient Films present the London Recruits
The Disobedient Objects exhibition at the V&A has now closed (prior to travelling the world over the next few years), but it continues to generate creative explorations of how objects of various kinds have been used in (and as) protest. This week … Continue reading
Working with anti-apartheid memories
By researching the historical geographies of the Non-Stop Picket, we are constantly confronting the multiple ways in which memory operates. The very act of remembering the Non-Stop Picket is an intervention into the ways in which the struggle against apartheid is … Continue reading
PW Botha, police spies, and the South African Embassy Picket Campaign 1984
In June 1984, President PW Botha of South Africa was expected in Britain for talks with Margaret Thatcher. His tour of Europe that summer was intended to promote ‘constructive engagement’ with the apartheid regime (rather than sanctions) and stave of … Continue reading
Posted in Archival research
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, Camden Council, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, defend the right to protest, Jeremy Corbyn, Margaret Thatcher, Metropolitan Police, police infiltration, PW Botha, Richard Balfe MEP, SAEPC, South African Embassy, South African Embassy Picket Campaign, Special Branch, Special Demonstration Squad, Stuart Holland MP, Tony Banks MP, Vienna Convention (1961)
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Objecting to apartheid: disobedient objects at the V&A
Gavin has written a guest post for the Disobedient Objects blog hosted by the V&A Museum. Disobedient Objects is an exhibition “about the art and design produced by grassroots social movements” which will open at the V&A at the end of July, running until … Continue reading
Marking South Africa House with ‘blood’ on election day 1987
As South Africa celebrates twenty years since the end of apartheid, and prepares for tomorrow’s election, I want to remember a protest that responded to a very different South African election. On 6 May 1987, there was a white-only general … Continue reading
Posted in Archival research, Interview material
Tagged apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Direct Action, election day, Elections in South Africa, Non-Stop Picket, South Africa, South Africa House, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square
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