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Category Archives: Interview material
Viva Carol, our convenor. No one tougher, no one meaner
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
Posted in Archival research, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, anti-imperialism, apartheid in south africa, Carol Brickley, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Non-Stop Picket, Revolutionary Communist Group
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Youth Activism & Solidarity: a dedication
Now that Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid has been published and had its launch, we wanted to share the book’s dedication. We have told the stories of Norma, David and Steve Kitson on this blog a number … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education
Tagged ANC, Andrew Privett, Andy Gardner, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, David Kitson, Jacky Sutton, Ken Bodden, Ken Hughes, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, obituary, Pan-Africanist Congress, Revolutionary Communist Group, Solomon Odeleye, Steve Kitson, Zoilile Hamilton Keke
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Mementos of Steve Kitson
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
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
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
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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Our achievements and the future of this blog
We’re nearly done! Officially, the current phase of our research about the Non-Stop Picket comes to an end in under a fortnight. Since July 2011 our work has been funded by a research project grant from the Leverhulme Trust. That … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Archival research, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, historical geography, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, social and cultural geography, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square
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Mandela Memories: connecting through protest
Recently, I retold some of the stories about the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy that people had shared with me, through this blog, in the days following Nelson Mandela’s death. Most of the stories I recounted in the … Continue reading
Mandela Memories: urban connections, protest connections
In the days and weeks after Nelson Mandela’s death many people around the world reflected on their involvement with anti-apartheid campaigning. Some of those people remembered the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London. Some of them searched … Continue reading
Posted in Interview material
Tagged activism, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, clubbing, cruising, homelessness, London, London in the 1980s, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, protest movements, Simon Community, social geography, St Martins-in-the-fields church, street homeless, Trafalgar Square, urban geography
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Non-Stop Against Apartheid 