Andrew Whitehead

 
 
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So, no googling. Do you know where this plaque is? No prizes for saying Islington. It's not the poshest part of the borough - but it is on a fairly busy road.

This was the London HQ of the ANC as the party built on the back of the Soweto uprisings and the rise of the black trade unions to challenge apartheid and then take power.

Nothing like as grand an address as South Africa House on Trafalgar Square - but in some ways, this was more important to the building of the new South Afrcia.