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Tag Archives: black consciousness movement
Contribution to Decolonising Geography
This week Gavin Brown has contributed a post about the Non-Stop Picket and the forms of informal, anti-racist political education that took place on it, to the Decolonising Geography blog. Gavin concludes his contribution by stating: Although the Non-Stop Picket … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged apartheid in south africa, black consciousness movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, decolonization, informal education, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, Pan-Africanist Congress, Solidarity, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square
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Interview with Zephaniah Mothopeng
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
Posted in Archival research, Dissemination, Popular & Informal Education
Tagged Azania, Azania Komitee, black consciousness movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, decolonization, Pan-Africanism, Pan-Africanist Congress, POQO, Sharpeville massacre, Soweto Uprising, Zephania Mothopeng, Zephaniah Mothopeng
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Nelson Mandela: The Centenary Exhibition (impact and refections)
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
Posted in Archival research, Dissemination
Tagged AAM Archive Committee, ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement, AZAPO, black consciousness movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, David Kitson, Nelson Mandela, Norma Kitson, PAC, Revolutionary Communist Group, South African Communist Party
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The Springbok Reception Committee: “no normal sport in an abnormal society”
When it was announced that the South African Springboks rugby team were due to tour Britain during the autumn of 1992, the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group sprung into action. Specifically, they responded to the call from South African anti-apartheid … Continue reading
Viva Steve Biko!
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of Stephen Bantu Biko in police detention in South Africa on 12 September 1977. Biko was one of the founders of the Black Conscious Movement. As a radical student leader who advocated … Continue reading
Surrounding the South African Embassy (to remember the Soweto Uprising)
To commemorate the school students’ uprising in Soweto in 1976, British youth attempted to surround the South African embassy in London on 16 June 1988 and again the following year. Young people were the backbone of the Non-Stop Picket of … Continue reading
Celebrating two years of being non-stop against apartheid (with a trip to the National Gallery)
The City of London Anti-Apartheid Group celebrated the second anniversary of their Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy on Saturday 16 April 1988 (three days before the actual anniversary). On this occasion, they marked the event with a march … Continue reading
Non-Stop Against Apartheid 