Summary

After the victory of the anti-Apartheid movement's 1960s/early 1970s campaign against sport with South Africa, the movement focussed on support for resistance organisations in South Africa and organising protests against South African government representatives in Australia. One key campaign of the anti-Apartheid movement in the late 1980s was to drop criminal charges relating to the alleged 'frame-up' of Maxwell Nemadzivhanani, the chief representative of the PAC in Australia, and his partner and wife, Kerry Browning. This campaign arose after various raids by the Australian Federal Police on 14 October, 1988. The police claimed that the raids related to the firebombing in Canberra of cars belonging to diplomats of the United States and the apartheid South African government.

Details

Some of the groups associated with this campaign were

* Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) South Africa

* Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) Australian Office

* Coalition Against Apartheid - three separate groups in Canberra, Adelaide and Sydney

* "Drop the changes" committee, Melbourne

(Source: Coaltion Against Apartheid, 1989, 8-page pamphlet. Details below)

Resources

Fliers

• Afrika Nite: Stop the Frame up Concert, Pan Africanist Congress Pan Africanist Congress P.O. Box 43, Chippendale NSW 2008., Sydney, 1989, 2 pp. PDF Details

Pamphlets

• Coalition Against Apartheid, Defend Anti-apartheid Activists, c1989, 8 pp. PDF Details