CONFERENCE
PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL ANTI-APARTHEID
MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA’S FREEDOM STRUGGLE: LESSONS FOR
TODAY
DAY TWO: MONDAY 11 OCTOBER
Presidents
Address to the AAM Conference
Presented by Ibrahim Ismail Ibrahim(Advisor to the Deputy-President)
09h00-10h30 Session 1 – Plenary:
Solidarity by Governments and Inter-Governmental Organisations
Chair: Mr. Mohammed Tikly
Hipolito Patricio (Mozambique Ambassador
to South Africa
Peter
Katjavivi (Namibia Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union)
Ben Magubane(South African Development and
Education Trust-SADET)
SHERRY
MCLEAN and ALPHEUS MANGHEZI
(former TEACHERS AT SOMAFCO)
10h30-11h00 Tea
Vladimir
Shubin (Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow)
Tor
Sellstrom (Embassy of Sweden)
Pekka Peltola(Finland)
Berit
Hagen Agoy(Norway)
13h30-15h00
Session 3 - Plenary: Civil Society
Chair: Professor Yonah Seleti
Dr. Werner Rechmann(Friedrich Ebert Stiftung)
Karin Linvall and
Ninni Uhrus, Africa Groups of Sweden
Sietse
Bosgra (Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa)
Alfred
Babing (Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement, Germany)
15h30-17h00 Session 4 - Plenary : Civil
Society
Chair: Betty Govinden
Louise
Asmal (SA): The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
Sylvia
Hill (USA): The Free South Africa Movement
Horst
Kleinsmidt (SA) : The Role of the International Defense and Aid
Fund
Sue
Brittion(SA): Churches in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle
DAY THREE: TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER
2004.
09h00-09h20: OPENING SESSION
Anders Nyberg(Sweden)
Sweden
and Beyond: Songs and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle
09h3-11h00 Session 5 – Plenary: Documenting the Role of the
International Anti-Apartheid Movement
Chair: Ms. Narissa Ramdhani
Graham Dominy (National Archivist, National Archives of South Africa)
Strategies for Documenting the Role of the International Movements.
Marianne
Lidskog (Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala)
The Work of the Nordic Africa Instiute
Richard
Knight (Consultant, New York, Project Director, African Activist
Archive Project) Documenting the Role of the US Movements.
Jade
McLune (National Archives of Namibia)
Aims and Significance of the Archives of the Anti-Colonial Resistance
and Liberation Project in Namibia.
11h00-11h30 Tea
The following academic sessions will comprise
largely of presentations, offered in response to the Conference
Call for Papers
11h30-13h00 Sessions 6 (A),6 (B), 6 (C):
Thematic Presentations/Parallel Sessions
Session 6 (A): International Solidarity
Chair: Dr Sylvia Hill
William
Minter (Africa Focus, Washington)
African Liberation and Progressive Internationalism in American
Life: An Untold Story
Arianna
Lissoni (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Anti-Apartheid Protest vs Real Politik: The Anti-Apartheid Movement
and British Policy towards South Africa during the Rivonia trial.
Hans
Erik Stolten (Centre for African Studies, University of Copenhagen)
Competition and Cooperation in the use of Solidarity History: The
case of Nordic Support to South Africa.
David Hemson(Human Sciences Research Council)
Investment, Trade Union Solidarity and Local Action in Britain:
A Tribute to Vella Pillay.
Session 6 (B): International Solidarity
Chair: Professor David Wiley
Kenneth
Walker (Red Lion Productions)
The Role of the US Media in the Liberation Struggle
Hilda
Varela (Centre for African and Asian Studies, Mexico)
Mexico and South Africa: The Tale of a (dis)encounter.
Robert Vassen (English Language Centre,
Michigan State University, East Lansing)
Historical Reflections
Francis
Njubi Nesbitt(University of California)
Rethinking Transnationalism: Black Intellectuals and the International
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Session
6 (C): International Solidarity: Frontline States
Chair: Mr. Tor Sellstrom
AM Kanduza
(Department of History, University of Swaziland)
The Frontline states against Apartheid: The case of Zambia.
Nhlanla Dhlamini (Department of History,
University of Witwatersrand)
Experiences of Swaziland in the struggle to end apartheid.
Randolph
Vigne (Friends of Namibia Association, London)
Standing by SWAPO: British Campaigning on Namibia, 1969-1990.
John Daniel (Human Sciences Research Council,
South Africa) and Felicia Forrest (South African National Academy
of Intelligence)
Fighting Apartheid from Swaziland: The Role of the Ephesus House
Bursary Fund.
13h00-14h30
Lunch and Book Launch:
Dr. Francis Njubi Nesbitt,
Race for Sanctions: African Americans against Apartheid, 1946-1994
(Indiana University Press). Guest Speaker: Peter Limb
14h30-16h00: Sessions7 (A), 7 (B))
Session 7 (A): Campaigns
Chair: Bongi Dhlomo
Mai
Palmberg (Nordic Africa Institute)
“The Struggle Revisited”, Reflections on the History
Writing by the Solidarity Movement
Genevieve
Klein (St. Anthony’s College, Oxford)
The AAM and the Nelson Mandela Campaign
Marietjie
Oelofse (Department of History, University of Free State)
The struggle, scapegoats and Botha’s Babylon: Reflections
on the way the regime of PW Botha viewed the international anti-apartheid
campaign.
Erin
Freas (Howard University, Washington)
The Use of the American Media to gain support for Sanctions in South
Africa.
Session 7 (B) Cultural and Academic Boycott
Chair: Dennis Brutus
David Wiley (Centre for African Studies,
Michigan State University, East Lansing)
Faculty and Scholars in the US anti-apartheid Movement: A Unique
Mobilisation”.
Priya Narisimulu(University of KwaZUlu-Natal)
South African Resistance Writer’s Expressions of International
Solidarity
J.
Brookes Spector (Bradlow Research Fellow, South African Institute
of International Affairs)
Non Traditional Diplomacy: Cultural, Academic and Sports Boycotts
and Change in South Africa
Colin
Gardner (Speaker: Msunduzi Municipal Council, Pietermaritzburg)
Opposing Apartheid: An Academic’s Odyssey 1957-1990.
End of Sessions
DAY FOUR: 13 OCTOBER 2004
08h30-10h30 Session 8 Plenary:
From National Liberation to Global Liberation
Chair: Mr. Pritz Dullayl
Bill
Fletcher (Transafrica, Washington DC)
Future Challenges for Global Movements.
Peter
Limb (Michigan State University, East Lansing)
Apartheid, Solidarity and Globalisation: Lessons from the history
of Anti-Apartheid Movements.
Peter
Utting (Mangosuthu Technikon, Durban) : Lessons from the Movements
in Australia and New Zealand
Rozell
W. “Prexy” Nesbitt (American Friends Service Committee,
Washington DC) and Evalyn W. Tennant (Centre for International
Studies, University of Chicago)
Future African Solidarity Linkages
11h00-12h30
Session 9
Chair:Vladimir Shubin
Professor
Kader Asmal (Member of Parliament, South Africa)
South Africa and the new International Solidarity Movement: Mutual
Challenges and Obligations
Sten
Rylander (Ambassador Sweden)
From National Liberation to Global Liberation: A Nordic Perspective
Professor Mushirul Hasan (India)
A Perspective From India
12h30-13h15 Lunch
CLOSING SESSION: 13H15-15H15
Chair: Professor John Daniel
Deputy
Minister Aziz Pahad(Department of Foreign Affairs, South Africa)
Future Strategies for Global Movements
Conference Ends
ADDITIONAL PAPERS
UNITED
NATIONS AND THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST APARTHEID
by
Enuga
S. Reddy
Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Director
of the UN Centre against Apartheid
ADDRESS
TO THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE AAM, LONDON
By
Kader Asmal
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