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Pilay S.A. history
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More and more unions began to refuse to handle South African goods, and the International Conference of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) asked workers to observe a week of action in November 1976.
When Steve Biko was killed in 1977, the AAM called for an inquiry, a call that received backing from many groups.
In 1977 the Commonwealth governments endorsed the Gleneagles Agreement, an informal measure to ‘take every step discourage contact or competition by their nationals with sporting organisations, teams or sportsmen from South Africa’.
A shift occurred at the BCC’s general assembly in 1979, and the council accepted a policy of ‘progressive disengagement’ in place of the constructive engagement it had practised.
Mandela was awarded the Freedom of the City of Glasgow in August 1981, and similar awards were made by 50 councils and local authorities over the next decade.
General secretary Len Murray met with an AAM delegation in June 1982, in a first for the TUC’s highest official.
Pillay emigrated to Australia in 1982 at the age of 70, leaving behind, in Port Elizabeth, a physical culture club called the Toynbee Club.
After an ILO conference in 1983, maritime unions joined in the action, and the cost of oil became much more expensive for South Africa.
Joseph N. Garba (left) Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid and Reverend Trevor Huddleston President of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement at a press conference, 10 October 1984, Photographer: Milton Grant, United Nations.
When Chase Manhattan Bank decided it would not roll over its loans to South Africa, the government in August 1985 announced a moratorium on the repayment of foreign loans.
According to Gurney, ‘By 1985, more than 120 local authorities, representing 66 percent of the British population, had taken some form of anti-apartheid action.’
SATIS convened a UDF Treason Trial Campaign Committee in 1985, calling for the withdrawal of charges.
Dammers linked up with Dali Tambo (son of Oliver Tambo) to form Artists Against Apartheid, which organised a rock concert on Clapham Common in July 1986.
In 1986 major church bodies called for targeted sanctions.
The marchers arrived in London on the eve of Mandela’s 70th birthday, 17th July 1988, at a rally at Hyde Park.
The AAM met with Thatcher’s foreign minister, Lynda Chalker, and eventually Thatcher was pressured into voicing her concerns to PW Botha and, in the case of the Sharpeville Six, an indefinite stay of execution was announced in July 1988.
However, there was confusion when the ANC allowed a South African rugby team to tour the UK in 1992.
The AAM’s last campaign, ‘Countdown to Democracy’, launched in January 1994, appealed to Britons to donate money to the ANC, which had initiated a ‘votes for freedom’ appeal.
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