AA News December 1979

As the Lancaster House talks on Zimbabwe drew to a conclusion, AA News warned that the British Government must not impose a settlement before a cease-fire agreement. It announced the launch of a campaign to save the life of ANC guerrilla James Mange, sentenced to death in Pietermaritzburg. Abdul Minty wrote about South Africa’s nuclear capacity. AA News reported on SWAPO’s rejection of the new Western plan for Namibia. It reviewed the conclusions of the AAM-UN Committee Against Apartheid international seminar on the role of transnational corporations in South Africa. It exposed Israel’s growing links with the apartheid government.