Skip to main content

Archive of End Loans to Southern Africa

 Collection

  • How to
    request

Comprises of publications, memoranda, correspondence, minutes, confrence papers, and papers relating to the End Loans to Southern Africa (ELSTA) campaign. Material dates from 1974 to 1995.

Dates

  • Creation: 1974-95

Extent

4.84 Linear metres (133 shelfmarks)

Language of Materials

  • English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Afr. s. 2350/1].

Please see our help page for further guidance on citing archives and manuscripts.

Full range of shelfmarks:

MSS. Afr. s. 2350/1-2350/133

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 1744

Abstract

Archive of End Loans to Southern Africa, 1974-95

Biographical / Historical

End Loans to Southern Africa (ELTSA) campaigned for the end to apartheid through the imposition of effective financial sanctions. It was established in 1974 by the Reverend David Haslam to campaign initially against loans by Midland Bank, together with other European banks, to the South African government through the European American Banking Corporation. It subsequently broadened its activities to campaign through consumer and shareholder action, parliamentary lobbying and other activities against all foreign, and particularly British, assistance to South Africa and for the implementation of the United Nations General Assembly resolution to end all new investment in and financial loans to South Africa. ELTSA carried out research into British banks and companies, produced information and campaigning documents and pioneered the techniques of pressure group shareholder action. A major element of its banks campaign was the boycott of Barclays Bank. In addition to the banking and disinvestment campaigns ELTSA was involved in the campaign to isolate South African gold through the World Gold Commission and through Embargo it supported the oil embargo of South Africa, with a particular focus during the late 1980s on the boycott of Shell.

In 1994 ELTSA was transformed into the Southern Africa Economic Research Unit (SAERU) to address the economic legacies of apartheid and encourage financial assistance to the region.

Arrangement

The archive has been arranged in the main to reflect the areas in which ELTSA campaigned. Section A contains general minutes, memoranda and publications and the following sections contain the papers of the banking and disinvestment campaigns, Embargo and the oil campaign, the World Gold Commission, general files and the Southern Africa Economic Research Unit, ELTSA's successor.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by the ELTSA Committee.

Title
Catalogue of the archive of End Loans to Southern Africa, 1974-95
Status
Published
Author
Finding aid prepared by Lucy McCann
Date
2002
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom