AA News July–August 1986

Nearly 200 British local authorities had taken some form of action to isolate apartheid South Africa, according to this issue of AA News. In South Africa millions stayed away from work on 16 June, the anniversary of the Soweto uprising. The newspaper reported on the decision by the television technicians union ACCT to ban its members from working on features for South African television and on the links formed by the AAM Women’s Committee with other women’s groups. Ida Jimmy from SWAPO described her traumatic experience as a political prisoner.