Badges

Badge produced by the Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau in support of the liberation movements in Portugal’s African colonies. Portugal was forced to withdraw from the colonies in 1975.

Badge in the colours of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO).

Badge with Umkhonto we Sizwe logo.

 The AAM held an annual sponsored ‘Freedom Run’ in Brockell Park, south London to raise funds for its campaigns. This badge publicised the first run in 1989.

During the 1991–94 negotiations for a new South African constitution, the Nationalist Party put forward proposals that would give special rights to whites. The AAM campaigned for recognition by the British public that the only acceptable outcome would be a constitution providing for one person one vote in a unitary South Africa.

Badge publicising the demonstration against the visit by South African Pesident P W Botha to Britain on 2 June 1984. Fifty thousand people marched through central London. Botha was taken by helicopter to Prime Minister Thatcher’s country residence Chequers to avoid the protests.