On 7 January 1987, the Cubans established the Cuban Anti-Apartheid Committee (CAAC), to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC). Work of forming CAAC began in 1986. CAAC worked with other anti-apartheid organizations in other countries. (Source:
Cuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa , South African History Online, accessed June 1, 2015;
Cuba and the South African anti-apartheid struggle by Nicole Sarmiento in LINKS international journal of socialist renewal, January 21, 2010, accessed June 1, 2015; and “An ACAS Link With Africanists in Cuba” by James H. Mittelman, ACAS BULLETIN (Number 27), Spring 1989, Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, available on this website)
