Boycott

Metal version of the badge produced for the AAM’s Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign.

Leaflet produced for the AAM’s Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign. It asked shoppers not to buy Cape or Outspan fruit.

Mug produced for the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 89’ campaign.

This conference gave London anti-apartheid supporters information about the AAM’s Boycott Apartheid 89 campaign. It was one of 18 regional meetings held all over Britain to mobilise support.

Regional anti-apartheid committees organised 18 area conferences all over Britain to mobilise support for the AAM’s 'Boycott Apartheid 89’ campaign. This meeting in Sheffield was for activists in Yorkshire and Humberside, north-east England.

Scottish AA groups campaigned to persuade the Dundee-based supermarket William Low to ban South African products. After Mandela’s release in February 1990 the AAM argued that the boycott should continue until a democratic constitution had been agreed. After a long-running campaign, the William Low chain agreed to stop selling South African goods in the early 1990s.

This letter from Islington AA Group asked for support for pickets of the local Chapel Market branch of Sainsbury’s, planned as part of the AAM’s national ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign. It also appealed for cash to pay for an advertisement in the Islington Gazette in response to an ad from a group calling itself the Social Democrats against Terrorism, attacking the ANC. 

This issue of Bath AA Group’s Newsletter proposed a programme for local activity in support of the AAM’s ‘Boycott Apartheid 1989’ campaign. It publicised regular pickets of Sainsbury’s and a role-playing workshop for new members to help them deal with ‘unfriendly comments’.