AA News November 1989

This issue hailed the release of Walter Sisulu and seven other long-term political prisoners from Robben Island. It condemned the decision by international banks to issue a new loan to South Africa and reported on a meeting between South African church leaders and President de Klerk. The Wales Rugby Union finally severed its links with the South African Rugby Board after a 30-year campaign by Welsh anti-apartheid activists. AA News deplored Prime Minister John Major's meeting with UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi. It featured the case of the Upington 14, sentenced to death for their presence at a demonstration when a policeman was killed.