AA News October 1978

This issue reported on South Africa’s rejection of the UN plan for Namibian independence. It called for a big turnout for the AAM’s International Anti-Apartheid Year rally on 21 October. UN volunteer Maggie Black described how growing numbers of Zimbabweans were fleeing the country since the imposition of the ‘internal settlement’. A centrespread urged the British Government to impose oil sanctions on South Africa. A review of political trials in South Africa revealed an upsurge in opposition to the apartheid government. AA News reported that the British Government had joined the Commonwealth’s appeal for clemency for Solomon Mahlangu.