AA News November 1985

‘The old is giving way to the new’, ANC President Oliver Tambo told the October 1985 Labour Party conference. AA News reported on his appeal to the British people to end Britain’s alliance with apartheid South Africa. SWAPO representative Shapua Kaukungua asked AAM supporters not to forget Namibia in the build-up to the AAM’s sanctions demonstration in November. A centrespread exposed breaches of the UN mandatory arms embargo. In a breakthrough in British churches opposition to apartheid, members of a British Council of Churches delegation to South Africa said that a new stage had been reached in resistance to apartheid inside the country.