AA News September 1974

‘Labour must stand by its pledges’, declared this issue. It reported on Vorster’s crackdown against SWAPO in Namibia and on the forced removal of whole villages in Zimbabwe. Vella Pillay exposed how international oil majors were circumventing the Arab oil boycott of South Africa. Paul Fauvet analysed the difficult path ahead for the liberation movements of the Portuguese colonies in moving to independence. Jean Middleton examined the manpower shortage faced by the South African Defence Force.