Founded in 1974, Anti-Apartheid Bewegung (AAB, Anti-Apartheid Movement), the major anti-apartheid organization in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany). AAB was based in Bonn with local branches in a number of cities in the FRG. AAB supported the liberation struggle in South Africa and Namibia. In the 1970s the AAB won the support of...
Founded in 1974, Anti-Apartheid Bewegung (AAB, Anti-Apartheid Movement), the major anti-apartheid organization in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany). AAB was based in Bonn with local branches in a number of cities in the FRG. AAB supported the liberation struggle in South Africa and Namibia. In the 1970s the AAB won the support of student and church groups and a few courageous members of the federal parliament. Only in the second half of the 1980s did support include unions, political organizations and political parties. AAB campaigned in the sensitive area of military and nuclear collaboration with South Africa by the FRG government and German companies. In the mid-1970s AAB published a number of secret documents that showed this nuclear collaboration existed and in 1978 hosted on international conference on military and nuclear cooperation between Germany and South Africa. AAB was involved in numerous campaigns including against bank loans to South Africa and the importation of South African fruit, the international campaign against the oil company Shell for its sales to the apartheid government. AAB supported the sports and cultural boycott of South Africa. The AAB was also involved in AAB worked with the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa and the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) of Namibia. AAB campaigned for the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners. After the end of the apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela to the South African president in May 1994 the anti-apartheid movement redefined its work and changed their name to "Afrika-Süd Aktionsbündnis" (AAB, Alliance for action on Southern Africa], which continued to carry out solidarity work with the southern Africa. Since the end of August 2001, AAB was dissolved and Koordination Südliches Afrika (KOSA, Co-ordination for Southern Africa) became the successor organization. (Source:
KOSA website English version and
Die Deutsche Anti-Apartheidbewegung by Gottfried Wellmer in
FriedensForum, , 7/2005, published by Netzwerk Friedenskooperative)
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