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Report on Sheffield: Britain's first apartheid-free zone

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Ref No:	arc06714
Title:	Report on Sheffield: Britain's first apartheid-free zone
Location:	Sheffield
Date:	1981/10
Date Period:	1980-1999
Notes:	Pages from Sheffield Forward - paper of the Local Trade Union and Labour Movement. In 1981 Sheffield became the first local authority to pledge that it would end all links with apartheid. It withdrew pension fund investments from companies with South African subsidiaries and barred South African sports teams from its playing fields. Original at Sheffield City Archives: LAAA/12.
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