Southern Africa Relief Fund: SARF.
This was Nigeria’s way of funding the fight against apartheid.
In 1976, after the Soweto Uprising, Nigeria set up SARF to send money and relief materials to freedom fighters and civilians suffering under white minority rule in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, etc.
The “Mandela Tax”: Every Nigerian civil servant and public officer had to donate a % of their monthly salary.
Everyone from clerks to ministers paid it.
That small deduction from millions of workers built up to serious cash and food, clothes, medical supplies.
The goal was to keep ANC, SWAPO, ZANU, MPLA and other liberation movements alive while they were banned and exiled.
Nigeria basically said “we’ll carry the financial burden so you can carry the guns/protest”.
It was one of Africa’s biggest anti-apartheid contributions. Nigeria was broke from civil war, but still taxed itself to fund freedom 4,000km away.