AA News January–February 1978

‘Smith troops on the rampage’, headlined this issue, reporting on a massacre of Zimbabwean refugees by Rhodesian soldiers. It announced campaign plans for the UN-designated 1978 International Year Against Apartheid and exposed how British companies were flouting the Government’s ‘Code of Conduct’. It reported on the farcical inquest into the death of Steve Biko and on the trials of hundreds of South African political activists. It previewed plans for the ICFTU’s trade union week of anti-apartheid action, 13–21 March 1978. In a special feature on Namibia, it accused Western governments of undermining SWAPO.