AA News April 1979

The April issue led on South Africa’s attacks on Angola and Mozambique. A four-page report recorded the findings of a UN Special Committee Against Apartheid seminar on nuclear collaboration with South Africa. Sam Makari, whose brother had been hanged, accused the British Government of complicity in illegal executions in Zimbabwe. AA News accused the South African Government of sabotaging UN proposals for democratic elections in Namibia. It showed how in the aftermath of the 1976 Soweto uprising, thousands of young South Africans had been put on trial and many had joined the ANC’s armed wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe.