In 2000 a South African - Swedish Binational Commission was established by President Thabo Mbeki and Prime Minister Göran Persson.

Other leading nations, such as the United States, still considered the ANC a terrorist organization by the time that Sweden had supported them for decades.

For example, in 1999, South African leader Nelson Mandela thanked Finland for its contribution in an address to the Finnish National Parliament in Helsinki.

[9] The Swedish National Union of Students (SFS) began the first organized movement against apartheid after oppressive segregation impacted higher education in South Africa.

The SFS raised money by donating blood in order to support black South African students who were victimized by these policies.

As driven by these actions of social organization, Swedish contributions to the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF) increased to a total of about 140,000 SEK.

[5] Notably, however, this number increased significantly when Sweden became the first industrialized Western country to give public funds to the IDAF with a gift equivalent to $100,000 US in 1964.

Though the group was widely favored in Sweden, the main impetus behind support came when the ANC President-General, Chief Albert Luthuli, was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1961.

[5] Sweden was the first Western country to support legal assistance to political prisoners in South Africa by paying a grant (of $200,000) to the Defence and Aid Fund in 1965.

[5] General Andres Forsse, the director of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, officially signed this request on February 2, 1973.

Swedish contributions to the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF) increased to a total of about 140,000 SEK in 1963.

[5] Notably, however, this number increased significantly when Sweden became the first industrialized Western country to give public funds to the IDAF with a gift equivalent to $100,000 US in 1964.

[9] By 1996, Swedish Foreign Minister Lena Hjelm-Wallen reported that Sweden's financial support for the struggle against apartheid reached over $400 million.

[5] Also mentioning the Vietnam War, the speech marked a decisive breach from the prior official Swedish policy of non-alignment.

This goal often came into conflict with the grassroots distribution of funds by ANC officers, preventing clear budgeting and money flows that Sweden desired.

While internationally, Sweden fought against racial discrimination beginning in the 1960's, it has removed any use of the term "race" from its domestic anti-discrimination law.

"[28] In 2022, Alvin Botes, the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, visited Stockholm at the invitation of the Swedish State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Krister Nilsson.

In recent years, this site has emphasized the role of international solidarity and currently includes an entire exhibit on Swedish involvement in the liberation fight.