EVENT INFORMATION

18
Juli
1978

Anti-apartheid activists mark Mandela’s 60th birthday

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Biografie 📅 18 Juli 1978 📍 Zuid-Afrika

On Mandela’s 60th birthday, British MPs and trade unionists signed a birthday card that the South African embassy refused to accept. The episode connected Mandela’s imprisonment to international anti-apartheid organizing and public solidarity. It also shows that states sought to contain not only the prisoner but the public memory and political meaning attached to him.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Nelson Mandela

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Anti-Apartheid Movement

British MPs

trade unions

South African embassy