Mr Chairperson, the British Anti-Apartheid Movement was founded 50 years ago, on 26 June 1959. It was a multiparty and multifaith movement against apartheid. At first it was called the Boycott Movement, and it campaigned for the British boycott of South African goods in response to an appeal from the ANC President, Inkosi Albert Luthuli.
In 1960, after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the ANC and the PAC, it changed its name to the Anti-Apartheid Movement and called for the international sanction and the total isolation of apartheid South Africa.
The AAM worked to foster an international solidarity movement. It co- operated with the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid and also with African and nonaligned countries that initiated the sanctions resolution at the AU.
It also lobbied Commonwealth countries and imposed Commonwealth sanctions against South Africa. It campaigned for the boycott of South African products and for British companies to pull out of South Africa. It also campaigned to end overseas tours by whites-only sports teams. In 1970, personalities such as Trevor Huddleston stopped a Springbok tour to Britain.
After the country's first democratic elections in 1994, the AAM was transformed into Action for Southern Africa to do lobbying, and more money is being channelled for Aids and HIV. Thank you. [Time expired.] [Applause.]