AA News December 1985

A call to pressure the Thatcher Government to support Commonwealth sanctions against South Africa was the main message from the AAM’s 150,000-strong march though London on 2 November 1985. In a special interview, ANC leader Thabo Mbeki told AA News that the democratic movement in South Africa was close to victory. European Economic Community Commission member Stanley Clinton-Davis said that EEC sanctions against South Africa were becoming inevitable. A centrespread featured the memorandum presented to the British Foreign Office by the AAM setting out the detailed steps it was asking the British Government to take to isolate apartheid.