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The London offices of the African National Congress (ANC) were wrecked by an 11-kilogram (24 lb) bomb which exploded against the rear wall at 9 am on 14 March 1982. Windows up to 400 yards away were broken. Caretaker Vernet Mbatha, an ANC voluntary worker, who was sleeping in a flat above the offices, was injured. [1]
London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid is a 2012 book edited and compiled by Ken Keable, with an introduction by Ronnie Kasrils and a foreword by Pallo Jordan. It inspired a documentary film, London Recruits , [ 1 ] directed by Gordon Main.
However, amid a surge of trade union activity in the 1940s, the ANC experienced a revival and moderate radicalisation [6] under President-General Alfred Bitini Xuma.In response to the publication in 1941 of the Allied Powers' Atlantic Charter, in 1943 the ANC's national conference signed the "African Claims" document. [9]
Gordon Main’s apartheid-era documentary “London Recruits” has been tapped as the opening film at the sixth Joburg Film Festival, which takes place Feb. 27 – March 3 in Johannesburg, South ...
London Recruits is a 2024 Drama Documentary Thriller South African/Welsh co-production, written and directed by Welsh director/producer, Gordon Main. It is inspired by the true story of how the ANC recruited volunteers in Britain in the 1960s and 70s, at the height of apartheid, to travel to South Africa for undercover missions.
The ANC has been in power ever since the first democratic, all-race election of April 27, 1994, the vote that officially ended apartheid. It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's ...
Plaque in Camden Town, London In March 1964, First went into exile in London , where she became active in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement . She was a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester in 1972, and between 1973 and 1978 she lectured in development studies at the University of Durham .
Williamson applied for amnesty in 1995 from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for bombing the London office of the ANC in March 1982. In the British House of Commons in June 1995, Peter Hain MP asked through the then Home Secretary, Michael Howard , that the British police should interview and consider extraditing ...