AA News February 1967

AA News called on the Labour Party and trade union movement to join with members of other political parties to pressure the Labour Government to commit to overthrowing the illegal white minority regime in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). It reported on the growing disinvestment campaign in the USA and analysed the vulnerability of the South African economy to economic sanctions. It revealed the apartheid government’s plan to stockpile oil as an insurance against an international oil boycott. It exposed a government plan to change the racial balance of South Africa’s population by restricting the birth rate among South Africa’s majority African population.