New SAHA collection: The Zackie Achmat, Jack Lewis and Treatment Action Campaign Political Papers (AL3165)

This significant new collection consists of the political papers of Zackie Achmat, Jack Lewis and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).

Zackie Achmat and Jack Lewis were anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s and 1990s in South Africa, working in the greater Cape Town area with trade unions and community-based health organizations. This, together with their Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) activities, led to increased work on HIV/AIDS throughout the 1990s.

In December 1998 both Jack Lewis and Zackie Achmat helped found the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). The TAC seeks to mobilise communities around issues of HIV/AIDS and access to treatment. The use of a combination of community-based activism and human-rights based legal strategies has largely characterized the activities of the TAC.

The collection consists of mostly documents, audiovisual and electronic material, and some posters. The collection is cross- referenced with related archival collections at the Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) Archives.

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