AA News October 1976

This issue reported on the continuing school boycotts and strikes in South Africa. It publicised a British student campaign for disinvestment from apartheid. It revealed plans by non-aligned and African countries to press for a UN mandatory arms ban against South Africa at the Security Council. Ethel de Keyser reviewed the Labour Party NEC’s new Southern Africa policy statement, which called for UN mandatory action against apartheid. Paul Blomfield reported on meeting with black student activists on his recent visit to South Africa.