Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
of the international movement opposing South Africa's system of apartheid and supporting South Africa's Black.
Early successes
Commonwealth membership
The AAM scored its first major victory when it set upon the idea of forcing the exclusion of South Africa from the Commonwealth. The AAM found willing allies in the Afro-Asian and Caribbean Commonwealth member states. Additional pressure was added by the involvement of Labour MP Barbara Castle who led a 72 hour vigil outside the 1961 Commonwealth Conference being held in London. The efforts were met with success when Verwoerd, the Prime Minister of South Africa at the time, issued a proclamation of the
Republic in May 1961 announcing that South Africa was withdrawing its Commonwealth membership renewal application.[1]
Olympic participation
Abdul Minty, who Lisson describes was the AAM representative, presented the International Olympic Committee in 1962 with material about racialism in South African sport. The result was a ruling that excluded South Africa from Olympic participation.[1]
The conference was not successful in persuading the UK to take up economic sanctions against South African though. Rather, the British government "remained firm in its view that the imposition of sanctions would be unconstitutional 'because we do not accept that this situation in South Africa constitutes a threat to international peace and security and we do not in any case believe that sanctions would have the effect of persuading the South African Government to change its policies'."[1]
We, the (undersigned) professors and lecturers in British universities in consultation with the Anti-Apartheid Movement: 1. 2. 3. Protest against the bans imposed on Professors Simons and Roux; Protest against the practice of racial discrimination and its extension to Pledge that we shall not apply for or accept academic posts in South
After apartheid
The Anti-Apartheid Movement continued to operate in the UK until 1994.[6] After the first democratic elections in South Africa, AAM changed its name to ACTSA: Action for Southern Africa. The Anti-Apartheid movement was popularized by the award winning video The Fight for Justice, produced by the independent film companyMrs. Shannon's Class.