AA News March 1989

The March issue led on the role of Albertina Sisulu, banned co-president of the United Democratic Front, in the anti-apartheid struggle. It reported on the hunger strike by South African detainees and the calls by organisations in Britain for their release. It exposed how the British Government was still promoting trade with South Africa, in defiance of Commonwealth moves to step up sanctions. In an interview, Barbara Switzer, Assistant General Secretary of the MSF trade union, talked about the union’s support for the AAM. The centrespread displayed pictures of women in struggle in South Africa and Namibia and of solidarity action by British women.