AA News October 1982

The front page of this issue focused on South African and Namibian political prisoners, featuring campaigns to save the lives of six young men sentenced to death and a new international initiative calling for the release of Nelson Mandela. The newspaper carried horrifying pictures of a massacre by South African soldiers of women and children in northern Namibia. A centrespread reported on a new wave of strikes by black South African workers and highlighted British TUC support for mandatory UN sanctions. In a moving obituary, Ronald Segal remembered Ruth First, killed by a bomb placed by South African BOSS agents.