AA News July–August 1976

‘Vorster’s police shoot to kill’ proclaimed AA News as it mourned the death of hundreds of Soweto school students. It told readers that the school students protests were not just about the introduction of Afrikaans as a teaching medium, but a rejection of the apartheid system. It alleged that British arms were used in the massacre and called for the extension of the arms embargo to all police and military equipment. Other stories covered the appeal by two SWAPO leaders sentenced to hang, the spread of guerrilla war in Zimbabwe and a review of the international sports boycott of South Africa.