ACTSA Scotland (Action for Southern Africa)
@actsascotland.bsky.social
Successor to the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Scotland. Solidarity with Southern Africa. Sister of @ACTSA-UK but not a charity. Work closely with @mandelasmf.
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A short video of a walk round the Mandela maquettes in Glasgow at mandelascottishmemorial.org/whats-new-se... gives a good view and brief account of each of the five works.
The full online display and comment form is at bit.ly/NMstatuesurvey Display live in City Chambers till Fri. 14th Nov. 4pm
The full online display and comment form is at bit.ly/NMstatuesurvey Display live in City Chambers till Fri. 14th Nov. 4pm
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A short video of a walk round the Mandela maquettes in Glasgow at mandelascottishmemorial.org/whats-new-se... gives a good view and brief account of each of the five works.
The full online display and comment form is at bit.ly/NMstatuesurvey Display live in City Chambers till Fri. 14th Nov. 4pm
The full online display and comment form is at bit.ly/NMstatuesurvey Display live in City Chambers till Fri. 14th Nov. 4pm
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Whether online or in person, please complete the survey and so have your views considered in the final choice of sculptor and design for what will be an iconic monument to celebrate Nelson Mandela and his links with Scotland - a statue in Glasgow's Nelson Mandela Place. We are spoilt for choice.
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Whether online or in person, please complete the survey and so have your views considered in the final choice of sculptor and design for what will be an iconic monument to celebrate Nelson Mandela and his links with Scotland - a statue in Glasgow's Nelson Mandela Place. We are spoilt for choice.
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Mandela Statue consultation begins! The display online of photos/videos of the 5 maquettes will go live at 11am on Fri.7th Nov. at bit.ly/NMstatuesurvey The actual stunning scale models will be on display in Glasgow City Chambers every day Mon 10-Fri 14 Nov. for anyone to look and leave comments.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Mandela Statue consultation begins! The display online of photos/videos of the 5 maquettes will go live at 11am on Fri.7th Nov. at bit.ly/NMstatuesurvey The actual stunning scale models will be on display in Glasgow City Chambers every day Mon 10-Fri 14 Nov. for anyone to look and leave comments.
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Mandela statue public consultation.Maquettes of designs from 5 sculptors competing to create the Nelson Mandela statue planned for Mandela Place,Glasgow, will be on public view in Glasgow City Chambers (George Square) between 7th & 14th Nov. Book your visit at bit.ly/Mandelaconsult & give your views
Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation | Scheduling and Booking Website
Public viewing in Glasgow City Chambers and a chance to comment on five maquettes (miniature statues) from five prominent sculptors competing to create a statue of Nelson Mandela in Glasgow to celebra...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Mandela statue public consultation.Maquettes of designs from 5 sculptors competing to create the Nelson Mandela statue planned for Mandela Place,Glasgow, will be on public view in Glasgow City Chambers (George Square) between 7th & 14th Nov. Book your visit at bit.ly/Mandelaconsult & give your views
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Poet and ANC activist Benjamin Moloise was hanged 40 years ago today 18th Oct. for a murder he did not commit. A picket of the S.African consulate in Glasgow called for his reprieve as did the UN, USA and USSR. Glasgow Council had just agreed to rename the consulate address Nelson Mandela Place.
October 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Poet and ANC activist Benjamin Moloise was hanged 40 years ago today 18th Oct. for a murder he did not commit. A picket of the S.African consulate in Glasgow called for his reprieve as did the UN, USA and USSR. Glasgow Council had just agreed to rename the consulate address Nelson Mandela Place.
The legacy of the apartheid era still lives on in the suffering of asbestos victims.We were privileged in Scotland to host four S. African asbestos campaigners in 2000, introducing them to campaigners here for those poisoned from installing the asbestos that had damaged the S. Africans who mined it.
Good read about the legal fight against 'big asbestosis' by Leigh Day's Richard Meeran and affected communities in South Africa that ACTSA was part of
The win against Cape plc set crucial legal precedents. More work needed to hold mining giants to account
The win against Cape plc set crucial legal precedents. More work needed to hold mining giants to account
Dust and deceit: how one lawyer took on Big Asbestos and won
The health dangers of asbestos were already well known, but it took a David and Goliath legal battle to hold the mining industry accountable.
theconversation.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The legacy of the apartheid era still lives on in the suffering of asbestos victims.We were privileged in Scotland to host four S. African asbestos campaigners in 2000, introducing them to campaigners here for those poisoned from installing the asbestos that had damaged the S. Africans who mined it.
This meeting in London of our sister organisation ACTSA UK may not be handy for our own Scottish mailing list, but the background explanation at the link shown is informative in itself, and the report being launched is important as we approach a vital court hearing early next month.
🚨EVENT🚨
Toxic Legacies: Holding Multinational Giants Accountable for Historic Pollution
Join the public launch of a new report into colonial-era lead pollution in world's most polluted town #Kabwe and support justice ahead of a class-action hearing
27 Oct, 5-6.30pm
London School of Economics
Toxic Legacies: Holding Multinational Giants Accountable for Historic Pollution
Join the public launch of a new report into colonial-era lead pollution in world's most polluted town #Kabwe and support justice ahead of a class-action hearing
27 Oct, 5-6.30pm
London School of Economics
REPORT LAUNCH - Toxic Legacies: Holding Multinational Giants Accountable for Historic Pollution - ACTSA
Mon 27 Oct
actsa.org
October 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This meeting in London of our sister organisation ACTSA UK may not be handy for our own Scottish mailing list, but the background explanation at the link shown is informative in itself, and the report being launched is important as we approach a vital court hearing early next month.
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On 9th Oct.1993 Nelson Mandela came to Glasgow to accept the Freedom of Glasgow and 8 other councils. We hope the same date in 2026 will see the unveiling of his statue in Mandela Place. Maquettes by the 5 shortlisted sculptors will be on show next month. Bookings link soon here & at bit.ly/NMSMF
October 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
On 9th Oct.1993 Nelson Mandela came to Glasgow to accept the Freedom of Glasgow and 8 other councils. We hope the same date in 2026 will see the unveiling of his statue in Mandela Place. Maquettes by the 5 shortlisted sculptors will be on show next month. Bookings link soon here & at bit.ly/NMSMF
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We were pleased to commission this resource, and are glad it's being used in schools in Scotland and is available across the world. The response from teachers and students has been very positive.
Looking to explore this #BlackHistoryMonth's theme of "Standing Firm in Power and Pride" in the classroom?
Check out our resource which explores the life of Nelson Mandela and connections to the Scottish anti-apartheid movement, and links to modern day injustice.
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Check out our resource which explores the life of Nelson Mandela and connections to the Scottish anti-apartheid movement, and links to modern day injustice.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We were pleased to commission this resource, and are glad it's being used in schools in Scotland and is available across the world. The response from teachers and students has been very positive.
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23-09-1990 saw the opening day and launch concert of the Sechaba International Conference and Festival of Cultural Resistance to Apartheid in Glasgow by the Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement,STUC and ANC with Govan Mbeki as keynote speaker and a two-week programme of cultural events of all kinds.
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
23-09-1990 saw the opening day and launch concert of the Sechaba International Conference and Festival of Cultural Resistance to Apartheid in Glasgow by the Scottish Anti-Apartheid Movement,STUC and ANC with Govan Mbeki as keynote speaker and a two-week programme of cultural events of all kinds.
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🔈Anglo American recently announced a merger with Canadian company Teck Resources
ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...
ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🔈Anglo American recently announced a merger with Canadian company Teck Resources
ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...
ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...
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When will #AngloAmerican keep its promise that where it has “contributed to adverse human rights impacts we will contribute to their remediation”?
Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.
#JusticeForKabwe
Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.
#JusticeForKabwe
Anglo American questioned by affected mother at its AGM
Mother and community advocate from Zambia, Lydia, asked Anglo American about historic lead pollution that continues to affect children especially and hamper crop growing.
actsa.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When will #AngloAmerican keep its promise that where it has “contributed to adverse human rights impacts we will contribute to their remediation”?
Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.
#JusticeForKabwe
Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.
#JusticeForKabwe
Steve Biko's murder was 48 years ago today.
Steve Biko's principles still stand firm today: land justice, social protection, decolonising education. Black people are still fighting for justice across Southern Africa today, in South Africa's gold mines and Kabwe's polluted land, in Swaziland's trade unions and Zimbabwe's student halls.
South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custody
Death of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the world
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September 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Steve Biko's murder was 48 years ago today.
ACTSA UK worked hard on building support and awareness around the lengthy court case that led to this compensation scheme, and ACTSA Scotland assisted in that process. It's desperately disappointing that justice for suffering and dying ex-miners is still being thwarted.
Only 30% of ex miners claiming compensation for lung disease from mining companies have been compensated
Mass rejections based on technicalities go against the administering body Tshiamiso Trust's values of giving claimants the benefit of the doubt
A huge injustice for ex miners in Southern Africa
Mass rejections based on technicalities go against the administering body Tshiamiso Trust's values of giving claimants the benefit of the doubt
A huge injustice for ex miners in Southern Africa
Compensation for sick miners: only 30% of claimants paid out by Tshiamiso Trust
Most claims do not meet the medical criteria, AGM told
groundup.org.za
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
ACTSA UK worked hard on building support and awareness around the lengthy court case that led to this compensation scheme, and ACTSA Scotland assisted in that process. It's desperately disappointing that justice for suffering and dying ex-miners is still being thwarted.
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Five great sculptors are shortlisted for creating a tribute to Nelson Mandela in Mandela Place, Glasgow. Paul Ferriter, Hector Guest, Alan Herriot, Kenny Hunter and David Mitchell will create maquettes for a public consultation in November. See bit.ly/NMSMF for more info. Donations welcome there too
September 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Five great sculptors are shortlisted for creating a tribute to Nelson Mandela in Mandela Place, Glasgow. Paul Ferriter, Hector Guest, Alan Herriot, Kenny Hunter and David Mitchell will create maquettes for a public consultation in November. See bit.ly/NMSMF for more info. Donations welcome there too
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🕊️ #OTD 20 Aug we honour Dulcie September (1935–1988) -teacher, activist, ANC rep in Europe. Jailed, tortured, exiled, she exposed apartheid’s crimes. Assassinated in Paris, her killers were never tried.
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#art #EGAschool student Sophia
#antiapartheid
More antiapartheidlegacy.org.uk/ega-school-h...
#art #EGAschool student Sophia
#antiapartheid
August 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🕊️ #OTD 20 Aug we honour Dulcie September (1935–1988) -teacher, activist, ANC rep in Europe. Jailed, tortured, exiled, she exposed apartheid’s crimes. Assassinated in Paris, her killers were never tried.
More antiapartheidlegacy.org.uk/ega-school-h...
#art #EGAschool student Sophia
#antiapartheid
More antiapartheidlegacy.org.uk/ega-school-h...
#art #EGAschool student Sophia
#antiapartheid
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🕊️ #Onthisday 1982, Ruth First - journalist, activist & fearless truth-teller - was assassinated by apartheid agents in Mozambique.
Her story lives on, her likeness captured in a student portrait for the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre. More in Blog.
✊🏽 #RuthFirst #OTD #WomensMonth #art #antiapartheid
Her story lives on, her likeness captured in a student portrait for the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre. More in Blog.
✊🏽 #RuthFirst #OTD #WomensMonth #art #antiapartheid
August 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🕊️ #Onthisday 1982, Ruth First - journalist, activist & fearless truth-teller - was assassinated by apartheid agents in Mozambique.
Her story lives on, her likeness captured in a student portrait for the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre. More in Blog.
✊🏽 #RuthFirst #OTD #WomensMonth #art #antiapartheid
Her story lives on, her likeness captured in a student portrait for the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre. More in Blog.
✊🏽 #RuthFirst #OTD #WomensMonth #art #antiapartheid
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🇸🇿 Ask your MP to support @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social's EDM on #Eswatini #Swaziland- recognising widespread human rights abuses, the erosion of democratic, trade union and civil rights, and calling on the UK to support the calls for justice and dialogue.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🇸🇿 Ask your MP to support @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social's EDM on #Eswatini #Swaziland- recognising widespread human rights abuses, the erosion of democratic, trade union and civil rights, and calling on the UK to support the calls for justice and dialogue.
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On 26th June 1955 3000 people from all over South Africa gathered to discuss and adopt the Freedom Charter, the manifesto and "great beacon" for the liberation struggle. Read Brian Filling on the massive consultation, radical content and lasting importance of the Charter bit.ly/FreedomChart...
South Africa belongs to all who live in it! 75th anniversary of the Freedom Charter - Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation
On 26 June 1955 the Freedom Charter was adopted by the Congress of the People (COP) at Kliptown, near Johannesburg, South Africa. Some 3000 delegates from across the country attended...
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June 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
On 26th June 1955 3000 people from all over South Africa gathered to discuss and adopt the Freedom Charter, the manifesto and "great beacon" for the liberation struggle. Read Brian Filling on the massive consultation, radical content and lasting importance of the Charter bit.ly/FreedomChart...
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We remember the Soweto children shot down by police on 16June1976 at a mammoth peaceful protest, and the 1000 others killed in the resulting year-long uprising. It mobilised a generation. On the 10th anniversary in 1986 the Glasgow home of the apartheid Consulate was renamed Nelson Mandela Place.
June 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We remember the Soweto children shot down by police on 16June1976 at a mammoth peaceful protest, and the 1000 others killed in the resulting year-long uprising. It mobilised a generation. On the 10th anniversary in 1986 the Glasgow home of the apartheid Consulate was renamed Nelson Mandela Place.
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Jim Kerr sang "Mandela Day", and the 25 Nelson Mandela Freedom Marchers were sent off on their walk to London.
June 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Jim Kerr sang "Mandela Day", and the 25 Nelson Mandela Freedom Marchers were sent off on their walk to London.
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On 12th June 1988 30,000 people marched through Glasgow with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and rallied on Glasgow Green to call for the release of Nelson Mandela for his 70th birthday. Oliver Tambo, Trevor Huddleston, Alan Boesak, Andimba Toivo ja Toivo, Abdul Minty and others addressed the crowd.
June 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
On 12th June 1988 30,000 people marched through Glasgow with the Anti-Apartheid Movement and rallied on Glasgow Green to call for the release of Nelson Mandela for his 70th birthday. Oliver Tambo, Trevor Huddleston, Alan Boesak, Andimba Toivo ja Toivo, Abdul Minty and others addressed the crowd.
Link to some background material circulated by our sister organisation ACTSA UK, on the scandalous behaviour of Anglo-American in Zambia, on which ACTSA has been campaigning vigorously.
Your Sunday evening read - this indepth NPR piece into the lead pollution in Kabwe #JusticeForKabwe
This may be the most lead polluted place on Earth. Is there any hope?
The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet. Who is to blame? And can justice be done?
www.npr.org
May 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Link to some background material circulated by our sister organisation ACTSA UK, on the scandalous behaviour of Anglo-American in Zambia, on which ACTSA has been campaigning vigorously.
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“Instead of attempting to continually shift blame and misconstrue the motivations of their legal team, the claimants believe that #AngloAmerican should take responsibility for the alleged consequences of its historic actions”
Absolutely - this is a legacy issue
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Absolutely - this is a legacy issue
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Anglo questions motives behind Kabwe lead poisoning case - Miningmx
ANGLO American has hit back at a damages claim related to alleged lead poisoning at the Kabwe copper mine in Zambia during the Seventies, saying it couldn’t be held responsible. “We do not believe it ...
www.miningmx.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
“Instead of attempting to continually shift blame and misconstrue the motivations of their legal team, the claimants believe that #AngloAmerican should take responsibility for the alleged consequences of its historic actions”
Absolutely - this is a legacy issue
www.miningmx.com/news/base-me...
Absolutely - this is a legacy issue
www.miningmx.com/news/base-me...
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On 10th May 1994 Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President of South Africa, and could take on the fresh and enormous challenge of starting to build the new society for which he and so many others had struggled and suffered over many decades. We salute his memory and his inspiration for us all.
May 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
On 10th May 1994 Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President of South Africa, and could take on the fresh and enormous challenge of starting to build the new society for which he and so many others had struggled and suffered over many decades. We salute his memory and his inspiration for us all.