Tag Archives: South African Embassy Picket Campaign

Working with anti-apartheid memories

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Gavin Brown

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 →

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PW Botha, police spies, and the South African Embassy Picket Campaign 1984

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Gavin Brown

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 →

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“I’m only doing my job”: a grandmother’s protest

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Gavin Brown

South African Freedom Day has long been celebrated on 26 June. The day commemorates the general strike and national day of protest that the African National Congress called on 26 June 1950. It also remembers the signing of the Freedom … Continue reading →

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Surveying the Anti-Apartheid Movement digital archives

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Gavin Brown

This week the digital archives of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement have gone live online.  The website, Forward to Freedom, charts the history of the AAM from 1959 until 1994. It provides a rich resource of photos, interviews, video clips and scanned documents … Continue reading →

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