| AdminHistory | A resolution proposed by fifty Members of the British Psychological Society was agreed at the 1974 AGM that when advertisements were submitted to the Society's appointments memoranda from South African Institutions the Society seek assurance that the posts were open to non-white applicants.
In 1984 they changed their bank from Barclay's due to its links with South Africa and in 1986 supported a South African Institute of Clinical Psychology position statement on Discriminatory Laws in South Africa.
Articles and letters to The Psychologist urged the Society to take a clear stand against apartheid - although they were not allowed to act as a political pressure group the 1987 constitutional changes allowed for a vote in 1989 on the grounds that apartheid was against the Society's code of conduct 'Psychologists shall not allow their professional responsibilities or standards of practice to be diminished by considerations of religion, sex, race, age, nationality, part politics, social standing, class or other extraneous factors'.
Apartheid legislation in South Africa was abolished in 1991. |
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