An evening of music, images, history and comment
Friday 6 March 2015, 6–8pm
Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS
Organised by SERTUC Race Relations Committee
Contributors: Judy Richards (invited), Professor Mary Davis, Marika
Nelson Mandela was remembered on 5 December, the first anniversary of his death, at special events in Leeds and in Haringey, north London. In Leeds, civic leaders, community groups and young people gathered in Mandela Gardens to watch a specially
...A new library and archive of Donald Woods’ books and papers is set to open at Hobeni, Eastern Cape. Hobeni, where Donald Woods was born and where he and his wife Wendy are now buried, is the headquarters of the Donald Woods Foundation.
The library contains
...Anti-apartheid badges have made it to the V&A as part of the museum’s new ‘Disobedient Objects’ exhibition. They are on show alongside banners from UNITE and Greenham Common, Chilean folk art and objects from all over the world. The exhibition runs from 26
...Chris de Broglio, one of the main movers behind apartheid South Africa’s exclusion from international sport, has died at his home in Corsica. Chris was a founding member of SANROC, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee, and helped secure South
...Bristol Action for Southern Africa supporters held their annual sponsored walk in the Mendips on Saturday 15 June – the 34th walk since anti-apartheid supporters first walked to raise funds for the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom School in 1980. You can
...The South African Deputy High Commissioner, Bongiwe Qwabe, unveiled a plaque commemorating Nelson Mandela's honorary membership of UNISON at the union’s London headquarters on Thursday 3 July 2014.
The ‘Forward to Freedom’ exhibition went on show at TUC headquarters in London on 12 May. Union members heard TUC Assistant General Secretary Paul Nowak and the former Chair of the AAM Trade Union Committee Mike Sparham talk about the big
...Jerry Dammers has been honoured in South Africa for writing the song "Free Nelson Mandela", which became the anthem for the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Along with other prominent artists and politicians he attended a ceremony at Union Buildings on
...The Forward to Freedom website was launched on the evening of the 20th March 2014 at the South African High Commission.
Former activists and supporters heard speeches from the AAM’s former Chair Lord Bob Hughes, historian Prof Colin Bundy,
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