AA News June 1989

The June issue accused the British media of ignoring South Africa’s defiance of the UN plan for Namibian independence. It reported that 70 political prisoners were now on death row in South Africa. Shell’s annual general meeting was disrupted by anti-apartheid protesters and local AA groups picketed Shell garages all over Britain in May. AA News reported that 85 per cent of Tesco stores had been picketed by anti-apartheid supporters at the end of April. It welcomed the acquittal of the ‘Alex Five’, community activists in Alexandra Township, accused of treason for organising a rent boycott.