ABSTRACT
From the inception of the Non-Stop Picket, the organisers pledged to remain on the pavement outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square until Nelson Mandela was released from gaol. The City of London Anti-Apartheid Group (City Group), who organised the Non-Stop Picket, could not let this award pass without capitalizing on the opportunity for further media coverage. During its brief existence, the Free Steven Kitson Campaign drew scores of new people into anti-apartheid campaigning for the first time. This chapter examines how the Non-Stop Picket was located socially, politically, and geographically at multiple spatial scales simultaneously. As well as thinking about how City Group practised solidarity with those fighting apartheid through the Non-Stop Picket, it is particularly interested in the eclectic community that was formed through the shared practice of picketing the South African Embassy.
