Anti-Apartheid Movement Germany / Anti-Apartheid Bewegung (AAB)
Germany
The Anti-Apartheid Movement Germany (AAB) operated from 1974 till 1994. It was formed on the initiative of the Mainz Working Group on Southern Africa (MAKSA). It was very active in the campaigns against the arms trade with South Africa, the release of Nelson Mandela, as well as the fruit, sport, Royal Dutch Shell and cultural boycott. It consisted of a network of local groups and worked with a variety of peace and religious organisations. In the late 1970s/early 1980s it used shareholders meetings (by buying shares) to pressurise banks not to deal with South Africa and pressured the Federal government to take an active anti-apartheid position. The AAB also participated in the Liaison Group. It changed its name in 1994 and continues to operate as Das Afrika Sud Aktionsbundnis.
The Archive for Alternative Literature holds the complete archive of the AAB.
The UWC/RIM Mayibuye Archives holds a small collection of papers and publications covering the period 1975-1993.
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