AA News February 1973

This issue highlighted an appeal by SACTU (South African Congress of Trade Unions) to British companies asking them to withdraw from South Africa. It mourned Amilcar Cabral, leader of the liberation movement in the Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau, assassinated in January 1973. The newspaper reported on strikes by African workers in Durban and carried an interview with SWAPO leader Peter Nanyemba on SWAPO's guerrilla war. An article reviewed 600 years of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance in advance of the visit by Portugal’s dictator Marcello Caetano to Britain in June.