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Correspondence of the Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) Wales group comprising circular letters and general business correspondence.

Correspondence reflecting the aims and activities of the Wales Anti-Racist Alliance (WARA) comprising circulars, group mailings, and general correspondence.

Material relating to the Countdown to Democracy in South Africa campaign, which sought to ensure a fair electoral process in the April 27th elections. File includes campaign plans and briefings; letters and statements from the Anti-Apartheid Movement, African National Congress and others; Local Group circulars and meeting agenda; draft background papers; newsletters (including 'Election Monitor'); leaflets; posters and press announcements.

Material relating to the Anti-Apartheid Movement campaign to stop the English cricket team tour of South Africa in 1990 comprising press releases, copy letters, press cuttings and copy press cuttings. Also includes two copy letters relating to the International Cricket Council (ICC) decision to re-admit South Africa as a member in 1991.

Material relating to boycotts against cultural events, such as concerts, film screenings, and artistic competitions, which included South African performers or promoted any links to apartheid South Africa. Also material relating to the opposition of UK artists travelling to, or performing in, South Africa. Events and artists targeted include the Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod, Simple Minds and Shirley Bassey, amongst others. Files may include letters, press cuttings, event programmes and other printed items.

Campaign briefing marking the anniversary of the massacre by South African troops of 26 people on a Soweto-bound commuter train on the 13th of September, 1990. The event became known as the 'Inkathagate Scandal'.

Papers of the Deeside group meetings.

Material relating to an Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) disinvestment campaign which sought to raise awareness of the extent of British investment in South Africa and how this supported the Apartheid regime there. This file contains material aimed mainly at students attending British universities, consisting of campaign briefings and instructions, correspondence between particular student unions and Barclays Bank, draft memoranda, and printed reports and studies by various organisations such as the AAM, Leeds University South Africa Disinvestment Group, and the United Nations. Also a Trades Union Congress (TUC) report on the withdrawal of all British investment from South Africa, which was circulated to Trade Union Pension Fund Trustees.

Material relating to campaigns of an economic nature, including those boycotting gold and jewelry of South African origin, campaigns against banks that were investing and operating in South Africa, campaigns supporting oil embargoes placed on South Africa and Namibia, campaigns discouraging foreign investment in South Africa, and campaigns calling for the implementation of sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Also contains lists of companies trading in South Africa and information on the shareholdings of several British and European companies with suspected links to Apartheid.

Letters, bulletins, press-cuttings and petitions relating to the campaign against South African competitors in Welsh eisteddfodau, or those Welsh groups who have appeared in South Africa. Events targeted include the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, 1981-1984, the National Eisteddfod, 1981-[1988], and the Urdd National Eisteddfod, 1985.

Campaign pack for the ACTSA Election Guide to Local Action campaign comprising background notes, campaign plan, contact list of main political parties and pledge leaflet.

Declaration, and a Special Appeal by the Liaison group of AAMs in the EU to the Council of Ministers of the EU made at the Berlin Conference, 5-6 September 1994.

Material relating to the work of the Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement's Executive Committee comprising notices of meetings, agenda and minutes.

Material relating to the work and activities of the governing committees of the national Anti-Apartheid Movement, based in London, and the committees of several of its regional branches.

Material relating to the 1993 International Conference on Southern Africa and the International Campaign for Free and Fair Elections in South Africa, comprising launch statements, campaign materials, draft fundraising documents, AAM National Committee reports and minutes, political reports and conference papers, AGM notices and promotional material. This campaign was the pre-cursor to the 'Countdown to Democracy Campaign.'