Professional groups

By the late 1980s the Anti-Apartheid Health Committee had built awareness among British health professionals of the chronic discrimination in health provision in South Africa and Namibia. One of the aims of this conference was to discuss how health workers in Britain could support their colleagues in South Africa, as well as joining in wider anti-apartheid campaigns.

Lawyers Against Apartheid’s 1989 Bulletin called for captured Umkhonto we Sizwe combatants to be treated as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. It also focused on South Africa’s violation of the Namibian peace accord.

In the late 1980s UK Architects Against Apartheid made new links with planning groups within South Africa affiliated to the Mass Democratic Movement. It also worked with groups fighting racial discrimination in the architectural profession in Britain. This issue of the UKAAA Newsletter proposed a joint meeting with the newly formed Society of Black Architects.

Leaflet publicising a public meeting in April 1991 highlighting the continued imprisonment and detention of political prisoners in South Africa.

Charter drawn up at a meeting held in Cape Town in June 1992 setting out the rights children should have in post-apartheid South Africa. The meeting brought together over 200 children, aged 12–16 years old, who set out demands to be fed in to the negotiations for a new South African constitution. The meeting was a follow-up to the Conference on Children, Repression and Law in South Africa held in Harare in 1987.

Sir Geoffrey Bindman is a lawyer and was Chair of Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society (SATIS ). SATIS publicised political trials, called for the release of those detained without trial and mobilised public opinion against the hanging of political prisoners.It campaigned for the release of thousands of anti-apartheid activists, including many children, detained under the States of Emergency imposed in the mid-1980s.

This is a complete transcript of an interview carried out as part of the Forward to Freedom AAM history project in 2013.

Sir Geoffrey Bindman is a lawyer and was Chair of Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society (SATIS ). SATIS publicised political trials, called for the release of those detained without trial and mobilised public opinion against the hanging of political prisoners.It campaigned for the release of thousands of anti-apartheid activists, including many children, detained under the States of Emergency imposed in the mid-1980s.

In this clip Sir Geoffrey describes his experience of investigating the legal aspects of apartheid and visiting political prisoners in South Africa.

 Sir Geoffrey Bindman is a lawyer and was Chair of Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society (SATIS ). SATIS publicised political trials, called for the release of those detained without trial and mobilised public opinion against the hanging of political prisoners.It campaigned for the release of thousands of anti-apartheid activists, including many children, detained under the States of Emergency imposed in the mid-1980s.

In  this clip Sir Geoffrey describes the lesson he learnt from Trevor Huddleston never to give up in apparently hopeless campaigns.