Tag Archives: PAC

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 →

Posted in Archival research, Gavin Brown, Popular & Informal Education | Tagged Adelaide Tambo, ANC, Oliver Tambo, PAC, politics of care, politics of exile, Selma James, social reproduction, Wages for Housework | Leave a comment

The PAC in London

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Gavin Brown

The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania has recently started a social media project to educate their members and supporters about the history of the movement and their contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle. As part of this work, they are also … Continue reading →

Posted in Dissemination, Media coverage, Popular & Informal Education | Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Gora Ebrahim, Johnson Mlambo, Non-Stop Picket, PAC, Pan-Africanist Congress, Rodwell Mzotane, Zephaniah Mothopeng, Zoilile Hamilton Keke | Leave a comment

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 →

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 | Leave a comment

Former British ambassador praises the Non-Stop Picket

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Gavin Brown

A work email account can often bring pain, as new, unanticipated tasks make unexpected and competing demands on one’s time, derailing the best laid plans. This week, however, an email arrived that had quite the opposite effect – we received … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research, Interview material | Tagged ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement, british high commissioner, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, greater london council, Lord Boateng, Non-Stop Picket, PAC, Paul Boateng, South African Embassy, Zephania Mothopeng | 1 Comment

How to get 100 people to a political meeting on a Friday evening

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Gavin Brown

A couple of weeks ago I had promised to attend a political meeting on a Friday evening. I didn’t. The meeting seemed important, but at the end of a long working week, I just couldn’t face being sat in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Interview material | Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Gora Ebrahim, Johnson Mlambo, Non-Stop Picket, PAC, political meetings | 1 Comment

Zolile Hamilton Keke: A Pan-Africanist fighter remembered

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Gavin Brown

We were saddened to learn of the death last week of one of the Non-Stop Picket’s staunchest South African supporters, Zolile Hamilton Keke. Comrade Keke, as he was universally known to non-stop picketers, was the Chief Representative in the UK … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff | Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, CLR James, David Kitson, Johnson Mlambo, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, PAC, robben island, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, Ruskin College, Steve Biko, Zephania Mothopeng, Zolile Hamilton Keke | 2 Comments

The Springbok Reception Committee: “no normal sport in an abnormal society”

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Gavin Brown

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 →

Posted in Archival research, Interview material | Tagged ANC, AZAPO, BCM(A), black consciousness movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Direct Action, Leicester, Leicester Tigers, PAC, SACOS, sports boycott, Springbok 9, Springbok Reception Committee, springboks rugby | 3 Comments

Zephania Mothopeng speaks in London, July 1989

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Gavin Brown

Zephania Mothopeng was the President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), one of the liberation movements that fought apartheid in South Africa. Following his unconditional release from jail in South Africa in November 1988, he spent several months … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research | Tagged apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, PAC, Revolutionary Communist Group, Solidarity, Zephaniah Mothopeng | 6 Comments

Surrounding the South African Embassy (to remember the Soweto Uprising)

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Gavin Brown

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 →

Posted in Archival research | Tagged black consciousness movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Non-Stop Picket, PAC, Solidarity, South African Embassy, Soweto Uprising, Steve Biko, Zephaniah Mothopeng | 8 Comments

Zephania Mothopeng in London, 1989

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Gavin Brown

Zephania Mothopeng, President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, was released from his third term of imprisonment in apartheid South Africa in October 1988 due to his rapidly declining health. In April 1989, he travelled to London for medical … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research | Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, PAC, Revolutionary Communist Group, Solidarity, Zephania Mothopeng | 7 Comments