AA News November 1983

AA News revealed how British nuclear technology had made it possible for South Africa to build a nuclear reactor and how this was contributing to the country’s nuclear weapons programme. It carried an eyewitness account of the war in Angola and exposed how the apartheid government was trying to starve Lesotho into submission. Former political prisoner and playwright David Evans set out the arguments for an economic, cultural and sporting boycott of South Africa. In an obituary for South African Communist Party Chair Dr Yusuf Dadoo, Vella Pillay recalled his role in uniting the African National Congress and the Indian Congress in the 1950s.