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Leafllet advertising a three-day vigil outside the Commonwealth summit held in London to discuss sanctions against South Africa, 3–5 August 1986. Earlier in the year a Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group mission concluded the apartheid government was not prepared to negotiate an end to minority rule. The AAM mounted an intensive campaign to show that public opinion in Britain rejected Prime Minister Thatcher’s anti-sanctions policy. On the opening day of the summit ANC leader Alfred Nzo and Trevor Huddleston led a march from an inter-faith service at St James’s, Piccadilly to Marlborough House.